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...Antonio last week were several thousand soldiers of the Third Army waiting around for the furloughs due them after maneuvers. Delay had its compensations. No need had they to pose the question: Madam, have you a daughter fair? Ready to see that the boys had a fine time were 1,000 Texas maidens...
...sheer black malice," nor are we unconscious of the fact that the war has brought some changes. But we feel, sadly enough, the anachronistic truth of Ben Franklin's accusations. Harvard is still a temple where most of the worshippers "contented themselves to sit at the foot with Madam Idleness and her maid Ignorance," and learn "little more than how to carry themselves handsomely and enter a room genteelly...
...Madam . . . (bound to be popular): in a crudely invented monologue, a servant shows her mistress through a freshly bombed house...
...years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler's most ivory-turreted Lieder...
...that for penance Francis write 2,000 words on "The Virtue of Walking." Wrote the local priest: "Naturally, the pinnacle of achievement would have been the conversion of the woman ... as the result of our young apostle's visitation! But alas! She has gone into partnership with another madam and opened a brothel in Barcelona, which I grieve to report is flourishing...