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...Metropolitan Opera House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd...
Guided into the paths of righteousness by these regulations the Freshmen of 1787 trod thorny ways with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
...then time that the surgeon should think of rest. Let him then do as 'the tired wayfarer, after a long journey, resting by the wayside, look on and watch the passers-by who have followed him in the rugged, but wondrous road that he, himself, has trod...
Author Chrisman made his leap to eminence from a literary nowhere. Raised near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he sought his fortune only a few years ago in the cinema studios of California. A camel stepped on him during the making of Intolerance. A fellow "extra" trod upon his face in The Gentleman from Indiana...
...eleventh hour he came. But his wages were the same As ours who all day long had trod The winepress of the Wrath...