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...this as it may, Maestro Mascagni remains discussed abroad. Inundated under wreaths, well-nigh buried in bouquets, he last week responded 100 times to the frenetic applause of a Vienna audience which heard him conduct Verdi's Aida. The performance was given in the huge amphitheatre, scene of numerous sporting events. On the stage were 2,000 musicians, singers, dancers-Italians; in the audience were 20,000 listeners-Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought...
...hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some tennis courts where the sun was furnace-hot. Nurmi jogged freshly to his shower...
...face of such criticism (well-nigh unanimous), Current Opinion ignorantly entitled its reproduction: "The Most Human Royal Portrait Within Living Memory" (a phrase quoted from the critic of the Illustrated London News...
...graced with a profound love of his people and with superlative knowledge and statecraft. Spain is indeed fortunate in possessing such a sovereign who had he not been born a King would, nevertheless, have to be considered one of the great statesmen of Europe. It is well-nigh incredible that a man so young should have acquired such deep knowledge of men and things...
...multitudes of baseball fans who swarmed over Anderson Bridge to the field outside the big oval horseshoe across the Charles were disappointed, for the CRIMSON sluggers found lampoon for a flock of hits in the very first frame, and put the game on lee. MacVeagh was well nigh invulnerabble throughout and but for a number of questionable decisions by Umpire Dube would have pitched a no hit game H. N. Pratt, '24, with an unassisted double play, and a long hit which by eleven broken field running he stretched to a three bagger helped his team to victory...