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...they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone, accompanied with such comments as "met and played like thunder...met, practiced, liquored and adjourned." Castigations of certain instruments were a common thing for "even the cello...persisted in being obstinate and unruly. Altogether...a shameful meeting." "Few of us...will forget the pathetic strains...
...wolf who loves to roam & prowl...
...their sandwiches also took on sterner ways. A mild-looking animal who pulls the town's garbage wagon from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (with a half-hour break for lunch), Smokey indulged his passion for sandwiches only on Sundays and holidays when he was free to roam on the riverbank; once when a cautious lady picnicker hid her lunch under a coat, Smokey ate both lunch and coat...
...more than in prewar days. The old college suite of bedroom and sitting room, with a servant for every "staircase," has given way to the shared austerity of a frequently servantless "bed-sitting-room." Nissen huts (British version of Quonset huts) squat in the quads; the students roam far & wide in search of "diggings" (off-campus rooms) in increasingly industrial Oxford town...
Pablo Picasso was a changed man once again. A change of scene had done it. He had left Paris last summer to roam the warm Cote d'Azur. At Antibes the 17th Century Castle Grimaldi, which had been turned into a museum, caught his eye. The curator happened to be a friend of his and told 65-year-old Picasso to make himself at home...