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...little dandy. When the picture was first exhibited he insisted that the title be merely "Arrangement in Gray and Black." To Harper Pennington, a friend who was enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued...
Meanwhile at Munich slightly potbellied "Handsome Adolf" Hitler stroked his tuft of brown mustache, took the salutes of his campaign committeemen who cheered themselves hoarse, then gravely launched his campaign: "There are two possibilities: either to give or to deny...
...spite of its beer. But at Egern on the Tegernsee in the Bavarian Oberland he had a cheerful stopover. Before leaving Munich he bought a Bavarian outfit? leather breeches, laced at the knees, white stockings, green suspenders embroidered with a stag and edelweiss, a Jager hat with a tuft of chamois hair. Stealthily accoutring himself in his hotel room Author Hergesheimer admired himself before his mirror for some time, then changed to dinner clothes, went to the bar and drank two double Martinis. He would have drunk a third but the barkeep demurred...
...second University lacrosse game ever played the Jayvees defeated the Tuft's second team by the decisive score of 7 to 0. R. H. Watt '32 was high scorer with a total of 3 goals. Although the attack was not working smoothly, the defense remained unscored upon and J. B. Thorndike '31, playing second defense chalked up a goal. The Jayvees meet the Springfield team next Saturday...
...grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order to discover from him the true rules of success in life. All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. And when challenged later about the soundness of this advice, Professor Rogers declared that he meant every bit of it and had not a word to retract. That would seem to make his circle of sarcasm completely rounded...