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...seen on the beach, wrapped in a gaudy bathrobe. His wife was with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honegger, Bodanzky, David | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...freshman class does not give, it does not have a picture. That reductioad absurdum should convince even the most oafish yearling that coins, not rolls of paper, are needed. Of course, 1928 does not know what use will be made of its money, but that, after all, is a mere peccadillo. Last year the freshmen covered themselves with ignominy by being tight, uncommonly tight, which is a shocking reversal of the proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE TILL IT HURTS | 4/30/1925 | See Source »

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