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There is a rumor that this Class Day number is Lampy's final bow for the year. If this be true, it would not be well to dismiss the jovial jester without earnest praise. Lampy has undoubtedly been greatly rejuvenated this year, and has shown promise of regaining a lost standard of virtue. The Literary Digest and Business School numbers are too outstanding to require mention, while the issue in commemoration of the Irish saint was not far behind in point of excellence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON MAKES LAST APPEARANCE OF YEAR | 6/11/1925 | See Source »

...minutes later, the parade, following over the same course from the Capitol, began to pass the White House reviewing stand. The President and Vice President with their wives occupied a glass-enclosed reviewing stand on the street before the White House. Mr. Hughes was there in a very jovial mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day of Days | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Rachevsky, mother-in-law; Princess Natalie, niece; Baron Nicholas Crown, secretary. The Grand Duke-a man just over medium height, 47 years old, with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Boris to the U. S. | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...brave is set in three feet of concrete to prevent his removal by any jovial funmakers. Except for his up raised right arm, he is carved from one solid piece of wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staunch Warrior in Front of Arthur's Is Survivor of a Dying Race; Cigar Store Indian Is Almost Extinct | 10/15/1924 | See Source »

...slow and simple voice never failed to impress men. He speaks with a certain ardor that compels, and with a knowledge of his subject that only brings forth admiration from friends and enemies. The French call him sympathigue, which says much for his character. In appearance he resembles a jovial and prosperous farmer; his features are hardly handsome, for, like his Premier, he is inclined to corpulency and is below medium height. But his iron-grey hair, his penetrating eyes and his smiling countenance go far to give him I'air distingué. Of him his intimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glorious Fourteenth | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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