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...Nero: "Has not modern research proved that Nero (as if his character were not black enough already) while Rome was burning, played, not the fiddle, but the bagpipe...
Your slur at Mlle. Lenglen as a "brandy-drinking Frenchwoman" with a "purple face peering like a ribald Nero" is vulgarly offensive***, just as your libelous reference to Lacoste as a dissipated Frenchman" whose "face showed all too clearly his partiality for the vices that infect his country." We have known the French players for years and there is nothing to justify these insults. They are the cleanest of sportsmen and clearly outplayed our best experts in the recent matches at the Seventh Regiment Armory...
...Theological School. The leading male role, that of Prince Albert, is being taken by H. W. B. Donegan, E.T.S. Other men in the play will be G. B. Bingham '28, R. D. Swezey '28, G. G. Ackerson Jr. '27, C. A. Hicks '27, Everett Addams '29, who played Nero in the Dramatic Club production of "Mr. Paraclete" early in December, and D. L. Moreland '28, who took the part of Tyellinus in the same production. Students at Radcliffe who took part in "Mr. Paraclete" and who are also participating in the Idler Club's play at present are, Miss Rhodita...
Included among the books in this collection are several first editions but the majority are almost equally rare second and third printings. The titles of almost all are characteristically long and explanatory. One volume by George Chapman is entitled "A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero in Burying with Solemne Funerall One of the Cast Hayres of His Mistress Poppaea; Also a Just Reproof of a Romane Smell-Feast, Being the Fifth Satyre of Juvenall" Nicholas Breton is represented by one of his works published in 1612 which he titles "Pasquils Nightcap; or Antidote for the Head Ache...
...life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders of her worshipers, her purple face peering, like a ribald Nero's from a wreath of flowers...