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...later appointed by the King to be Governor of Fort William. The war with the Colonies started and Burgoyne came to America. To him this place must have appeared unreal and picaresque; as it appears in old engravings and panoramas, a country of little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when...
...artists to show their work, did not, as has previously been mandatory, limit each exhibitor to one picture. By including fewer artists, he allowed each one to send several representations. Lay visitors?including Calvin Coolidge, Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Claudel?were dazzled as they looked at the blobs of irregular fire against the walls of the Institute; never before has the International hung so many modernists or rated them so in the prize awards...
...bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell to remember one of the old giants whose grotesqueries serve only to make him more magnificent, whose gaieties and gambles with disaster, whose foolish posings and conceited gestures, only make more regrettable the decay of so splendid and so irregular a period as that in which he flourished...
...motion toward the opposing goal line. Sometimes they were held by the Black Shirts and either compelled to surrender the ball or start over again, giving up all their gains. They netted, however, a total of 13 first downs which is a better indication, because of the irregular nature of the scrimmage, of their power than the score itself...
...Engineering School should find such a dining hall as that which President Lowell has promised to erect of particular value as a place to meet and get acquainted with each other. And for the undergraduates it would, of course, put an end to the necessity of the present irregular eating around which has proved detrimental to both health and sociability...