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...striking through Nassau's clear ocean shallows to coral bottom, paints them a variety of shore-sea greens and blues to which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail, one last swim...
People on the tender, when it was plowing out to the Munargo one day last week, thought that going home had proved too much for one young man. As the tender passed the buoy by the Hog Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member...
...Cradle Song. This play, translated from the Spanish of Gregorio and Ma ie Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young...
...team. Arlington High was overcome in a very uninteresting game by the decisive score of 6-1. The strong Newton High aggregation succeeded in tying the Freshmen by the score of 2-2, when Stubbs of the schoolboys slammed a fast puck by Cary, the substitute 1930 goal tender, in the closing seconds of play. In this game the first-year men showed a marked improvement in every respect. There was better teamwork and the wings put power and direction in their shots...
...have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community and a "scheme" on the part of the Chamber of Commerce to help its own interests. Now Councillor Fitzgerald suddenly grows strangely tender for the convenience of Boston's business men and on this part of his case as aforesaid it is difficult to have patience...