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Enrico Caruso, clever caricaturist and sculptor of some merit, left a valuable art collection, which is being sold at the American Art Galleries, Manhattan. The collection includes Limoges enamels, Egyptian and Roman glass, ancient Greek sculpture, snuff boxes, watches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism on the Wane | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...halls has come up to snuff. There ought to be a hundred men out in each one every Monday, instead of the paltry 20 or 30 who have been attending. The result is that the jubilee is in the balance. It will be necessary to call the whole thing off unless the class immediately evinces more interest, shows more spirit. Each man must do his share. Forty-five minutes of song once or twice a week is not too much of a drain, even on the time of the busiest men; and these meetings are really more fun than work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/4/1918 | See Source »

...spirit, but it will be a gloomy, chill dawn if the track squad reporting for the first practice today is not larger than any in the last four years. Two men reporting for the hammer-throw, three for the high jump, and one for the pole-vault will only snuff out the hopeful flame recently kindled. The best of systems must have men behind it. Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their efforts and desires a winning team this May. Every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAWN OF A NEW TRACK SPIRIT | 3/20/1917 | See Source »

...included, especially a few modern ones, such as "If I Knock the L Out of Kelly" which Marguerite Farrell gets across; there is no other way to describe it. All in all, we are glad Lew Fields is in town, for if his co-workers are not up to snuff, he still is able to make us forget for a while that there are such things as wars and elections...

Author: By F. E. P. jr., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 11/22/1916 | See Source »

...When they talked of their Raphacls, Correggios, and staff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MONTHLY REVIEW | 2/3/1913 | See Source »

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