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...Harvard nine has been doing queer things of late, and the trouble is not hard to diagnose. A none too brilliant victory over Pennsylvania, after a set of snappy wins over other strong invaders, was followed by a breakdown before a quite ordinary Georgetown team. Last Saturday, however, the Crimson rallied and overwhelmed Princeton, in the first Harvard-Princeton ball game since 1926. It seems as if Devens and his invincible pitching presage victory for the Crimson, over almost all comers. When he is not in the line-up, almost anything might happen, as it did in the Georgetown flasco...
...administering Federal oaths. Section after section had to do with details of government in Territories which have since become States; with the allotment of public lands to homesteaders; with the rigmarole of Civil War pensions; with Congressional employes (for the House: "28 pages, including three riding-pages"); with queer old revenue laws including an inheritance tax scaling up from 1% to 6% depending on the degree of kinship between the heirs and the deceased...
...centuries went by. A Kingdom passed away, a Republic came, a great man reeled over Europe, a kingdom came again, and the inevitable Republic followed, a small man flickered on the continent, and then the Third Republic. Versailles saw queer days. Women shouting for bread and a Queen offering cake. The splendor tarnished in the shadows, and silence fell, unending silence, to be broken at last by a German voice and the voice of Empire. And again deep silence...
...scientist's ratiocinations leave him unconvinced. When the anchor-chain grates overboard at Port Said, Joel finds the out-argued priest sticking to his divine guns still. Joel cannot figure him out. Also he sweats less than Joel, does not seem to mind the stewing heat. He is a queer fish too. Kamongo is one of the two April choices of The Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Queer places, queer people cross their path. There is the waggoner who told of a man with an old and ugly wife. When he discovered another man with her he did not shoot, or even shout. "He only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend...