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...resemblance to the name of any person, living or dead, is to be regarded as purely coincidental. LOWELLA SALTONPUSS, of Ratcliff Part taken by Lowella Saltonstall FOUFOU SEARS, of Magnolia-by-the-Sea Aunt to Lowella. . . . . . . . . Part taken by foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant-Skinned Lady 1914 SNUFFY SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS...
...name of Harvard Lowella used to shudder, sometimes at the same time drawing the ermine wrap about her slim young shoulders, just to prove she knew her Katherine Brush. And never were her sensibilities so ravished as when she walked through the Yard at noon. Now all that will be changed. For, though the world of Beacon Hill laughed, and some of those who knew seem to have pitied, recognition of the Cabot pleadings has come at last...
...next three days Lowella may walk in a Yard that will, saving only one building, be purged of all offense. And by the end of the week she may walk even in that building without unhappiness, for by then the offensively uncollegiate garments should be in the slums. Last year they were sent to the flood victims, but the arrival of uncollegiate clothing in New Hampshire was was looked upon as an impertinence in some of the better refugee circles. And however prejudiced the poor may be, Phillips Brooks House can still do the Christian thing by the rich. Lowella...
...Boston the cheers are faint but heartfelt. The dances may begin again. Once more Boston hostesses may have that rare privilege of entertaining the Cambridge hedonists, that "charming bevy of wastrels", who will regale their daughters with drinking exploits, and spill food on their carpets. The Lowella Cabot's are in for another bad time and may their blood be on their own heads. Nearly everyone will be happy Half the College will attend and the other half will no more be aware of these delightful functions than the other half would think of studying without a "glass and bottle...
...Lowella seems to bear no grudge; her attitude is that of a best friend and severest critic. Obviously she is a close friend of Montgomery Higginson, the leading figure of that distinguished coterie of literati which counts among its number such important names a Essenz von Bierschaum, Jan Rotterdam, and Major Polonius Pringle. In such company as this, Lowella should be safe even at the Lamb's Club...