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...very much annoyed when those listening to a speech he was making went outside to see an airplane flying above the Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet of the Capitol. Senator Williams, of Mississippi, defeated this bill with a timely jest about forbidding the sparrows to fly around the building. ... I will continue to speak as I think best. My speeches mold public opinion. I was elected because my constituents know I have backbone enough to stand by my principles...
...Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
...anything funny in one man hitting another in the seat of what they termed "pants." In their day the seat of the, pardon us, trousers was a disciplinary objective; they refused, to admit the right of Charles Chaplin to make it simply the butt of a jest...
...Leigh Mallory described the attempt to ascend Mount Everest which took place last May. Professor Theodore Lyman '97, president of the Harvard Travelers' Club, introduced the speaker. Mr. Mallory introduced his speech by asking "What is the purpose of climing Mount Everest?" He answered his question by saying in jest tha tit was of no use other than to fulfill the desire of geologists for a stone from the summit and to show physiologists at just what altitude human life became impossible...
...enough of this sort of jest is enough, and incidentally, the ability to appreciate the joke does not decide anything definite about the relative merits of the two teams. The game will be played today, the heavens permitting, or Saturday, but wherever finally staged, in New Haven or at the Polo Grounds, it will be a Harvard-Yale game, and as such worth waiting for a week...