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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been an international polo match. But now the excitement had cooled a little. Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents who, to indicate a raise of $1,000, lifted a forefinger, waved a catalog or merely jerked their heads. One dealer made most of his bids...
...final match of the State tournament, with the two hardest hitting players in the tournament opposing each other, brought out the best squash of the competition. The champion, who reached the top of his game last week after a slow start, matched power and speed with his younger opponent. In the last game with the veteran leading by a 10-2 margin, Wright made a desperate attempt to pull the match out of the fire by discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled...
...University fencing team with a record of 17 hours won and five lost this season, will leave for west Point this afternoon wheethey will meet the swordsmen from the Military Academy tomorrow. Captain Carrillo from probation to Dean's List will make his first appearance in an intercollegiate match this year when he faces the Army tenures tomorrow...
...display cases of the Treasure Room, where they will remain for several weeks. Two small notebooks in which Conrad kept a diary of his trip up the Congo River into the center of Africa in 1890, his first manuscript of the early chapters of "Lord Jim", and a silver match box, which he carried a great part of his life, complete the display. A small pamphlet containing notes on the diaries by Richard Curle, close friend and secretary to Conrad, is also available in the Treasure Room...
Sunday. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.* But for the moment it is a trifle depressing. Suzanne and the Baron came down like wolves on the fold and whipped us to a standstill, 6-1, 6-2. It was a terrific, savage match. We played our best, every stroke. The reporters said C. F. looked like Jack Dempsey smashing away at the net with his jaw way out. And that I was pale with concentration. Perhaps I was foolish to change from driving to lobbing against Suzanne, but it seemed best at the time. She was like a silk whirlwind...