Word: madison
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Such was the fine distinction that emerged last week from a perplexed and not unamusing situation in Madison, Wis. The soul-stirring subject of "companionate marriages" had been filling periodicals of the high-minded kind for which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin writes articles. Eager intellects of the Wisconsin Student Forum heard that the wife of famed Philosopher Bertrand Russell of England was coming to the U. S. to lecture in connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture...
More sad, if possible, would have been his looks had he been aware that life, for all princes a prison, is cruel especially to a prince of basset hounds. Had he, last week, been carried from his country kennel to Madison Square Garden, where the 52nd Annual Dog Show of the Westminster Kennel Club was in progress, his sensitive heart must have trembled with the terror that afflicts a small boy when he is taken, for the first time, to school. Unlike poodles or pomeranians, basset hounds are not pleased by admiring stares; they prefer running in the fields...
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When the first crack of the starter's gun opens the annual Millrose A. A. meet in Madison Square Garden, New York, Thursday night, six men wearing the Crimson of Harvard will be on the floor, it was announced yesterday by Coach E. L. Farrell of the University track team...
Vienna heard him first, then Berlin, Paris, London. The Steinways brought him to Manhattan in 1891. He played in the old Madison Square Garden Concert Hall but it would not hold the crowds, and Carnegie Hall was for the first time used for piano recitals. Paderewski became the rage from one end of the country to the other...