Word: valhalla
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...traditional rivalry extending back through countless years . . . a rivalry broken only once . . . a rivalry that has seen the great athletes of Harvard matched against the heroes of Dartmouth's Valhalla of sport . . . such is the rivalry which is renewed this afternoon when the Harlow-coached Crimson eleven meets Eleazar Wheelock's Sons of Dartmouth...
Brother John, the president, shuttles about the country attending to business when he is not hiding away in his Vast Valhalla, N. Y. estate or lunching in solitude at the Biltmore. His well-tailored grey clothes and his inevitable moth-winged half ascot tie are recognized at directors meetings of a few great corporations, by occasional A. & P. store managers when he drops in for a chat, but he is very. very seldom heard of by the consuming public. Brother George is not heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building...
...Vagabond was recently reminded that Professors, as a group, are not of the human race. They move, like a James Branch Cabel Wotan, in a Valhalla of their own making. Not that they are much given to Walkuere-Quite the reverse. But they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with...
Hagen speared the fear-proof Siegfried in the back, Brünnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...some serene Valhalla...