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...more than 100 years before it came to be known as Class Day--when the Fellows of Harvard College "treated" the graduating class. Just what a "treat" is nobody seems to know, but it caused one Joseph Sewall to put in his diary that he "too much indulged vain proud thoughts...
Last week Subway Contractor Mario Luccio decided to get tough. National Fine Arts Director Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat begged in vain for more time. Luccio shook his head. While archeologists disconsolately stared, the work went on again full blast...
...Hubbard hires some musicians from Mobile to play his Opus 3, they are good but not too good at their jobs; the piano is the good but imperfect instrument you would expect to find in such a home; and Opus 3 is perfectly what might be expected of a vain, surprisingly talented but utterly derivative, provincial composer...
Alexander Pope, a brilliant, vindictive little hunchback who became the greatest satirical poet of his century (the 18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic...
...Hollywood, the late Rudolph Valentino was guest of honor at a seance. Some 30 mediums chatted with him while reporters strained in vain to hear. At the guest of honor's request, the mediums said, they sang The Sheik of Araby...