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...thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly one's vacant pate and beneath the heads of three companions who lay beside...
...Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak, Humoresque, Massenet, Aragonaise from Le Cid; Mascagni, intermezzo from Cavaleria; Paderewski, Minuet, Volga Boat Song; Mendelssohn, Spring Song; Schumann Traeumere; Tchaikovsky, Humoresque; Donizetti, sextet from Lucia; Saint-Saens, "The Swan; Goldman...
Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...
...Lange, Brooklyn, N. Y. Stuyvesant High 173 21 6.1 S. N. G. Stagg, Ithaca, N. Y. Ithaca Hign 166 19 6.1 C. R. Aronsen, Brookline Brookline High 112 21 5.1 PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY CREW Pos. Name Residence School Wt. Age. Ht. B. D. M. Swan, Philadelphia, Pa. Hagerstown High 175 20 6.1 2. C. H. Grashoff, Rochester, N. Y. East High 175 20 6.2 1/2 3. B. S. Redway, Ilion, N. Y. Ilion High 182 22 6.1 4. H. E. McDonald, East Orange, N. J. East Orange High 198 22 6.2 1/2 5. A. S. Goetz, Ocean City, N. J. Ocean...