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Next day, since he chanced to be in London, Composer Honegger arranged with indulgent Britons to pilot a locomotive for some 20 miles. He returned from the adventure well nigh ecstatic, plunged at once into a symphonic composition which will take romantic music-lovers out of themselves and into a robust locomotive...
...since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which the charm is quite beyond cavil, even the well-nigh inescabable air of proselyting being warded off by quiet irony and bathos. Brother Alphonse and Brother Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination...
...Fire Brigade (Charles Ray, May McAvoy). Lest that drab day come when Young America shall cease to begin life with fire-fighting aspirations, Director Nigh provides the public with a picture well calculated to arouse boyish enthusiasm. The hero is a fireman who not only rescues women and children from the flames, but fearlessly announces to the heroine's papa, corrupt politician, that it is unethical to build firetraps. Charles Ray is the young man with brass buttons, tin hat; and May McAvoy, as the pleasing heroine, marries him in a smoky fadeout, while Boy Scouts in the audience...
With the emphasis which, in late years especially, has been laid on the whole question of so-called "Nordic supremacy", there comes up more actively than ever the complicated and well-nigh insolvable problem of rare mixtures. Do, as a general thing, groups of people of pure race, pure race, pure Nordic or pure Hebraic for example, exhibit stronger and more vital characteristics than other groups which might be composed of mixtures of these two races...
...well nigh a quarter of a century the University has had a keen and sympathetic observer of her sons' manners and morals in the dapper person of Arthur Clement, smokeshop philosopher. His services to undergraduates, by no means confined to the realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience...