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...Chicago was insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar...
Mostellariam Plauti in theatre Sanders heri vidimus et omnes condiscipulos nostros snadere hortarique volumus ut vel hodie vel cras videant. Argumentum tamen huius fabulae vix necesse est nobis eloqui quippe quae simillima sit paene omnibus Plauti comediis; Philolaches enim, adulescens Athenaeus, absente patre amantem suam manumittit atque grandem impendit pecuniam. Pater Theopropides revenit. Tranio, servus et omnium actorum maxime alacer, hunc ludificatur, Philolachi succurrit. Terribilem larvam dicit domum Theopropides nune habitare. Mox tamen pater cognescit quid sit verum, nee minus filio dat veniam. Itaque, cum aulaeum tollitur, nemo histrionum non est felix et contentus...
...Vide ut supra...
...been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into the inner pages, the Traveller became increasingly generous and increasingly reserved; the historian's "ut fertur" appeared, all statements were pegged on to "competent observers", and learned "on good authority." In other words, the Traveller must dilute its vitriol; but holds which are barred in six point type are legalized in ninety six point, where they may be expected to do the most harm, or the greatest...
...racehorse Northdrift: the November Handicap, at Manchester, England, on a muddy track and in a fog so thick that no one except the jockeys saw the middle of the race. To the dismay of speculators in the $10,000,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, the Aga Khan withdrew his favorite, Ut Majeur, just before the start, because he thought Ut Majeur's weight handicap, 43 lb. greater than Northdrift's, was too much for a slippery track...