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...dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge for his people by wrecking them since he would perish first. Arrived at Jassy they spat upon him and dispersed to their homes...
...Lobarno perish and the League of Nations fall; but the Big Three must and shall be preserved. There will be conversations and negotiations about this high matter. If necessary, all Harvard graduates and undergraduates--barring the Lampoon squad--will sign a humble policy and remonstrance. Let us have peace and the game. And a pleasing little incident of Saturday's game with Cambridge was the capture of the Harvard goal posts by the conquerors. This is a common pastime of our intellectual youth. The combination of malicious mischief and larceny is irresistible to the academic mind. The Princetonian stand excused...
...Representing an investment of $3.10 for each of the 800,000 members of the brotherhood, the memorial is a structure "embodying beauty and permanence, one of the finest memorials in honor of the heroes of the War." Under a keystone chiseled with the inscription, THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR PERISH-THE TRIUMPHS OF PEACE ENDURE, bronze doors open through a colonnade into a circular hall containing twelve windows and four niches in which statues personifying Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity will soon be enshrined. The building faces Lake Michigan at the corner of Lake View avenue and Diversey Park...
...Kaslov, king of the gypsies of America, was a bachelor. He had no heart for any woman longer than an hour; none of the gypsy women could win him with the charms that sleep in satin skins and shiny eyes. And his mother, fearing that the royal line would perish, said to him, "It is time for you to find yourself a bride and leave off treating the woman question lightly...
...barricade of some well fought for hope. The magazines are published in amazing covers of topaz and mauve and cinnamon. Braver than autumn leaves, they flourish for a while, bailiffs occupy the editorial rooms and grubby gentlemen attach the furniture, and the gay little magazines dry up and perish...