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...Forest Hills when Helen Wills announced her withdrawal, animation slipped away from the Woman's National; to make matters worse a pewter sky settled like a plate over the boggy courts. A glance at the draw made it seem likely that Mrs. Mallory would meet Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the finals and likely also that she would win. Against Miss Ryan, Mary K. Browne might make a bid, but Miss Browne was able to win only four games in two sets, and out came red Miss Ryan to battle brown Mrs. Mallory, just as expected. She soon went back...
...field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that ended the season...
...porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods and climes; paintings and panels by Jan van Beers, contemporary Dutchman; silver and pewter ; miniatures in enamel and ivory; silhouettes and medallions; cameos, intaglios, jewelry, ornaments; U. S. and British drums from the Revolution; a British silk battle flag; early U. S. prints; three bronze treasure caskets, elaborately fashioned, carefully following Gothic models of famed Venetian chests, which had been constructed in Paris expressly...
...goes. The zucchetto was conferred in person by Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who said: "Had it been a red zucchetto it would not have been too much." The monks celebrated by giving a feast to all their guests, although they themselves took their own plain fare from pewter bowls. Only in one respect did they depart from the etiquette of their vows. They talked a little. Cardinal Dougherty, referring to a recent visit to Rome, described the Pope as showing plainly the effects of his arduous office: "As a matter of fact when he subscribes his official letters...
...original dining rooms. One room was occupied by each class in the College, and the plates of food were passed in through large round openings in the hallways, which have since been boarded up. After meals in University Hall, it was the custom for the students to take their pewter mugs and go out to a buildings, probably the original brewery, at the north end of the University, where they received their regular allotment of ale and beer...