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After immortalizing John Harvard, the quintet took shots of Memorial Chapel, taking due care not to spoil the Yard's business-like atmosphere by including feminine students or men lying on the grass. Later subjects were the Navy in the Yard, boxers on the Athletic Field, and the Harvard Yenching Institute...
There was no rain during the entire trip to spoil the lunch cooked out in the open or the view of Concord Bridge where the Minutemen fired the famous shot that was "heard around the world." Leaders of the trip were Lee Sosman '43, treasurer of the Club, and Betty Reichert, Radcliffe '44, president of the Radcliffe Outing Club...
Uncle Harry tells of a man (Joseph Schildkraut) who commits a perfect crime. The criminal is a mild, Milquetoastish bachelor who lives with two maiden sisters (Eva Le Gallienne, Adelaide Klein) who spoil him dreadfully but also spoil his life. They wrangle with each other, watch him like a hawk, keep him from marrying. Not being as harmless as he looks, Harry coolly schemes to poison one of them and have the other charged with the crime...
...surprised to learn-and to corroborate in Bartlett -that the National Anthem reads not "in triumph shall wave" but "Oh, long may it wave." He will discover, if he did not know it, that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but is a folk improvement on it dating from about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that...
...first assembled in New Delhi, turbaned maharajas in the convening Chamber of Princes, and members of India's Legislative Assembly, crowded the city's hotels. Miss Hotz, manager of the Cecil Hotel, offered Brereton & staff tent space on the garden lawn. "But, oh, Miss Hotz, you will spoil the hollyhocks," a woman guest protested. Miss Hotz risked the hollyhocks. Later, Brereton found working and living space at another hotel, where an air conditioner presented by General Motors officials in Bombay now cools his sleep and labors...