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Eugene Elsenman '27, playing for the class of 1929, and W. J. Buck '23 poled homers to swell their team's totals, Buck getting his clout with two men on base. The Juniors scored a triple play on the losers in the fourth when E. L. Markella '29 fled out to center field. E. R. Todd '29 was nipped off at home plate, while Richard Warren '29 was caught off first base...
...glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...
Among the others who are expected to swell the Crimson point total are W. C. Peet, '28, quarter-miler. G. W. Smith '29, half-miler, A. E. French, broad-jumper, J. L. Reid, two-miler, N. S. Ballan, tyre '27, low and high hardles, and J. O. Wildes, miler...
...gossip, tales of little doings of important and unimportant people, is always half the news. In the small towns on the boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial news-mongers. Over bored back fences, down dumbwaiter pits, gossiping voices shrill. In cities, the churning presses of newspapers join the rocking-chair chorus, give the daily pabulum of gossip, dignified in print, to stenographer and businessman. Shanghai may fall, Prohibition flounder; the names of "Peaches," Chaplin, Rhinelander still strike responsive...
...birds are singing, the tree buds swell...