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Summer in a Tangerine. In the years preceding the first World War he hopscotched furiously about Europe-Rome, Berlin, Venice, Madrid-in pursuit of inspiration. Soon his New Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...
...Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...
...been awarded to Professor Theodore William Richards '86, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, for investigations and determinations of the atomic weights of the chemical elements. The Nobel prize for physics for 1914 has been awarded to Professor Max von Laur of Frankfort-on-Main...