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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Describing Rasputin, Prince Yussupov says: "He was of medium height, thickset, yet rather thin, with long arms. His big head was covered with an untidy tangle of hair. Above his forehead there was a bald patch which, as I subsequently learned, came from a blow administered to him for horse stealing. He seemed to be about 40 years old. He was wearing a long coat, wide trousers and long boots. . . . His whole bearing attracted attention; he appeared unconstrained in his movements, and yet there seemed to be something dissembled about him-something suspicious, cowardly and searching...
...John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is the biggest cathedral in the U. S. Like its sister Episcopalian cathedral at Washington, it too seeks money ($15,000,000), and from the same clientele. Last week St. John the Divine's committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet...
NamePosition Class Age Weight Height Barrett, J. E. Tackle 1930 22 180 5.10 Bell, Dudley Center 1928 21 190 6.1 Bigelow, A. B. Center 1930 18 175 5.11 Brown, G. K. Quarterback 1929 22 170 5.8 Burns, S. C. End 1930 21 177 5.11 Burns, H. W. Quarterback 1928 23 149 5.8 Clark, Forrester Tackle 1929 21 210 6.5 Combs, J. L. End Occ. 23 167 5.11 Crosby, J. P. Back 1928 21 185 5.11 Davis, F. S. Tackle 1930 19 180 6 Donaghy, G. E. Back 1929 20 160 5.8 Dorman, B. H. Center 1930 19 180 6 Douglas...
...natives are an amusing lot. A few years ago the height of their ambition was to be a two-gun man; but we taught them how to play basketball, and the whole town is crazy about it. The village hero is the captain of the leading basketball team and they all agree that nowadays one basket from mid-floor is worth three really dramatic murders...
...company of dolls will take the boards in Boston tonight to enact the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its busiest, Jonah and the Whale at the height of their disagreement with one another, willow trees which go democratic and grow bananas, and stories of Chinese mandarins and their lovely, distressed daughters...