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...right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "In a chapel designed by me in the garden of my villa at Lake Garda I held night rites alone, burned laurel, scattered the ashes over the grave of an unknown soldier there. A newspaper despatch said that the ceremony excited artistic circles, that it was proposed that others perform similar rites for me when...
Mary Newcomb is the lady of the title and she retired from the action with the majority of laurel leaves. Virtually unknown before the opening night, she took her place among our leading lady agonizers...
Yale and Princeton went home from the intercollegiate golf matches at Siwanoy wearing half a laurel wreath apiece. Princeton retained the team championship, won last year at Garden City, by 12 strokes with an aggregate of 1,286-four men, 72 holes. Yale won the individual championship when Dexter Cummings of the Class of 1925, defeated R. Knepper of Princeton, 2 and 1, in the match play final...
...been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could there not be one prize, awarded with out qualification, to what, in the opinion of its judges, was a good piece of work...