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Latecomers and would-be readers who missed the morning distribution will find a last-minute reserve at the Bowl just outside the Walter Camp memorial gate. Where newsboys wil lattempt to catch all these who look Harvardian before they enter the saucer...
Stocked with the familiar pass-throwing T-quarterback, the speedy halfback, and the charging fullback, the Brown team of this November unlike some of old, has manpower pretty much on a par with the best in New England. Last Saturday in New Haven's saucer, Rip Engle's solid line, averaging 203 from end to end, kept Yale's Nadherny and Jackson under control and had some observers comparing them to Brown's Iron Men of decades...
...hurtling railroad diner causes many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. Seasoned travelers know a goopish trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
Baudelaire's parents tried to check his dissipations and steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter. He was soon living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...
Lila Lee, saucer-eyed, doll-faced heroine of the silents, was "feeling fine" after two years at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanatorium, was set to be up & about (in Manhattan) next week...