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...presence of a throng of about 250 spectators the impressive ceremonies connected with the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial were held yesterday morning. At 11.10 o'clock Mrs. Widener and Mrs. Lowell, accompanied by President Lowell, and Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, entered the building grounds, and were followed by the procession of the members of Phi Beta Kappa...
...their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands of former supporters of Kurt von Schuschnigg in the throng of 25,000, their cheers were not entirely without significance...
...Teutonic throng burst into a wild ovation at the portion of the speech devoted to Jews. In very coarse language a pledge was given by the Feldmarschall that within three years Vienna will be a city composed exclusively of Aryans...
Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
Despite the fact that the practice was held from 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock quite a few spectators turned up to view proceedings. One can imagine the immensity of the throng from the remark of a member of the Freshman Hockey team: "There's even a lot more people here than come to our games. It must be the Bruins." Several officials of the H. A. A. were also seen there, probably to make sure that none of Stubbsmen were tempted to renounce there amateur standing...