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Overburdened by the pressure of public affairs, the eminent mayor was unable to handle the moose's schooling and commissioned his son, Sylvain, to tutor the beast. Sylvain waited until the moose attained a reasonable size and then constructed a sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither...
...days before, the Pact that ended the five-week Syrian War had been merely initialed by Vichy's Brigadier General Joseph Antoine Sylvain Râoul de Verdillac, who went to Acre in Palestine for the armistice talks* held in the officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought...
Never has the U. S. municipal judiciary sunk so low ... as when Judge Sylvain Lazarus of the San Francisco municipal court vilified and insulted the Filipino people (TIME, April...
Last January into San Francisco Municipal Court went a white girl with the charge that a Filipino boy had held her while a rival white girl battered her nose, blacked both her eyes. Said Judge Sylvain Lazarus from the bench: "This is a deplorable situation. ... It is a dreadful thing when these Filipinos, scarcely more than savages, come to San Francisco, work for practically nothing, and obtain the society of these girls. Because they work for nothing, decent white boys cannot get jobs...
Some of the world-famous artists who have been soloists at these concerts are Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist; Josef Malkin, violin cellist; John Powell, Sylvain Noack, violinist; Miss Anne Hathaway Gulick, and Mme. Peroux-Williams. Dr. Karl Muck has conducted at all the concerts...