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Kennan also disclosed that entry posters advertising the play have mysteriously disappeared over the weekend. The posters, which were distributed last Tuesday, began to vanish on Friday after the show opened. Janitors in Dunster, Eliot, Winthrop, and Leverett said they had no idea who the culprits might...
...Cluny Manor, and the Countess Judith owned three at Darcy Manor. A restored Cluny Manor still stands (Oliver Cromwell slept there), and some old Offonians still remember when it was haunted by a "little old lady" who would appear late at night, flit through the drawing-room, then vanish...
...house cleaning. The only man who could fill the role, if he chose to, is King Farouk himself. Says one of Britain's old Egypt hands: "If Farouk were to emerge tomorrow as an active, constructive champion of genuine social democracy, the Egyptian people's discontent would vanish overnight...
...perfectly frank, I haven't the slightest desire to read any novel later than Henry James, see any play later than Ibsen, hear a note of music after Richard Strauss, or look at any canvas after Renoir ... I hold that when Labor rules the world all elegance will vanish and good manners will be a thing of the past . . . The masses? . . . I should compel them to vote, of course, because of the salutary effect of voting. But I should destroy the votes, not count them...
...whites, and though some students protested, their professors approved. Concluded Rowan: "A dying generation of the Old South will not give [segregation] up without bitterness. A misled portion of the new generation will not relinquish segregation without a battle . . . But it is evident that soon-very soon-segregation will vanish...