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...Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's King Lear before an impressed peasant audience who ended by calling for "Author! Author!" When Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks, three Shakespeare lovers who had seen King Lear at the Budapest State Theatre leaped to their feet, hurled eggs & onions at Felleghy-Shakespeare. rushed onto the stage and beat him with canes. In Budapest County Court they were fined 20 pengoes ($3.49) each...
Although plenty of guard material is at hand, these key positions have been the center of much debate all season. It is probable that Dan Fraad and Dutch Lear, two stalwarts from the 1935 Freshman team, will start for Brown, with Offen, Sayward, Patton, King, and Walker awaiting an opportunity to get into the game...
...with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation, and has since labored tirelessly to turn Transamerica fiction into the greatest possible amount of auditable fact. But Mr. Giannini did not expect his retirement to be as complete as it was any more than King Lear expected to be neglected after he had given his kingdom to his two elder daughters. In Mr. Giannini's attempted comeback there is with out doubt a great deal of personal pride. He has, however, been shrewd enough to cover this. The fight began when a group of stockholders united...
...strenuously about the country, took his inevitable defeat with good grace. Then he got out to look for a new job. The pickings were poor. He had to content himself with the vice-presidency of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, an insurance company run by the late Publisher Van Lear Black. In August 1921 he and his family embarked on Van Lear Black's yacht for their summer home at Campobello Island, N. B. Shortly after they arrived, Mr. Roosevelt caught a chill stamping out a forest fire. A cross-country run and a cold plunge...
...clearly suggested by his boast, which we slightly paraphrase to fit the modern scene, "All the country shall be in common and on the White House grounds shall my palfrey go to grass." Senator Johnson of California must, in his low moments, we are sure, turn to King Lear for comfort, quoting with feeling the old king's bitter cry, "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude...