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...Cabinet. He failed (TIME, Apr. 20). The King summoned Charles de Broqueville to the palace and invited him to form a Cabinet. He failed. The King summoned Aloys Van de Vyvere to the palace and invited him to form a Cabinet. He succeeded (TIME, May 25). Like a new kitten, the Van de Vyvere Cabinet staggered blindly on its pins. At the end of nine days, it was ready to open its eyes. Then Burgomaster Adolphe Max of Brussels got busy. His popularity dated back to the fall of 1914, when the Germans were goose-stepping across Belgium in seven...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...
...reversed by charging corroded metal negatively. A cathode or negative electric action set up in corroded objects liberated oxygen from the incrustations and brought them back to their original metallic condition. An ugly gray-green cup of Egyptian bronze rust returned to its shape of a bronze cat and kitten. Old coins revealed names and dates. A statue of Isis shed the rust of 30 centuries from necklace, hair, headdress, garments, finger-and toenails. ? Dr. Colin G. Fink, Columbia University...
...this? The answer to the question is not lacking. The Nassau combination which had torn the grass off in the Stadium a week ago, slipped and floundered vainly on its own sod. Gone was the vicious charge; gone was the impregnable defense: the Tiger had become a purring kitten...
...Yale nine have adopted a kitten as a mascot. It will be a mighty mean antagonist who cries "rats," when the mascot is in the field. - Boston Transcript