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Conference Doings. Handsome, spade-bearded Dino Grandi drew loudest cheers. The Crown Prince of Japan's father-in-law drew loudest hisses...
...main theme of his talk is the author's literary career, its rewards & punishments. On this subject he spares no sensibilities, not even his own, minces no words, without malice prepense. He does not hesitate to call a spade a dung-scoop or Pegasus a stallion. Among those writers who can damn the world's illusion with feint praise, Cabell holds, deserves to hold, high place...
...undergraduate funny business and a fake horse that turns around once to display a sign: I WILL SHARE. Young Marshall Dana learned during the summer how a ham Shakespearean trouper should act, and that is the way he plays Don Quixote, complete with suit of armor and greying spade beard. J. N. Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder...
...ground. Amazed, Mrs. Hitchcock ordered her whip to tell Mrs. Phipps's superintendent; then set off, with her hounds, after the rabbit. Later, the hole into which the man had disappeared was found to be seven feet deep, furnished with a blanket, pots & pans, straw, a spade. He was persuaded to leave his burrow, where he had lived for almost a month, given a job as a gardener...
When prolific, peace loving Franz Joseph Haydn closed his eyes and died in 1809, all Europe reverently mourned him. In Vienna the admiration of two men expressed itself strangely: a jailer and the secretary of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Haydn's patron, bribed a gravedigger to spade open the grave, break the seal of the coffin, hack off for them the dead composer's hulking head...