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...Hartford last week, at its first public exhibition, the Warburg-Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
...carrying tides of dense ionization, like a jet of water pouring over a round ball. But the Earth-ball is also rotating. Where the expanding waves go in the direction of rotation the wave-front is smooth; where they go against it they are like whitecaps in a tide rip...
What stirred the Administration to one more desperate effort to save its oil program from complete collapse was the rip-roaring gasoline price-war which, from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, made motoring a joy (TIME...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last...