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...last step remained to be made much time was spent in waiting for a day on which the wind seemed low enough to allow Irvine and Mallory to make the run for their goal. The day came, as clear as crystal and the snow so rigid that it crackled underfoot. Very early in the morning the two fearless assistants started...
...Manhattan, Louis Sherry's restaurant is?well, Sherry's, something the same as Claridge's in London. Sables and silks go in to Sherry's; plenty of blue blood, too, and real diamonds. The carpets are lush and silent underfoot, the waiters obsequious, the linen snowy, the crystal sparkling...
...Realists, the latter deny that there is anything of merit in the work of the Romanticists. Someone has used the simile of a road to point out the difference between the two schools and, in a way, the failure of both. The road is muddy, and unpleasant underfoot, but each side is lined with roses. One man looks at the mud, and the other at the roses, but neither gets an adequate idea of the road...
...statement that a 'howling mob of McGill University students here tore down an American flag in Montreal on November 20th, spat on its trampled it underfoot and then did a snake dance on the soiled and trampled remnant,' is wholly and unqualifiedly untrue. The entire story which follows, established on these false premises, is equally untrue...
...there are many other fertilizers now in use which are not only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what do we find? Paving stones sunk below the level of the path, an utter absence of board walks, and everywhere underfoot, pools, rivulets, and streams of water, in which the unhappy student is obliged to wade. We think that this state of things, so often spoken of and so well known, ought to receive at least a trifling consideration from the authorities. If our rustic gardener is ignorant of the state...