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...Lenox Hill Hospital. There was an operation for appendicitis, and a few days later, a minor operation. Then, in the small hours of the Tuesday before Christmas his grandniece and five business lieutenants gathered at the bedside of an unconscious man, 71 years old, and began the vigil which Death ended at dawn...
Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...following program will be given: Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Unfinished Symphony in B minor Shubert Recitative and aria, "Eri tu cha macciavi" Werdi Song of the Sandman and Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck Jaernefelt Berceuse Two Sentimental Tangos (for dancing) Vigil Thompson '22 "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" Purcell "Wie bist du meine Koenigen" Brahms Cartner "Love is Mine" (C. T. Leonard '23, accompanist.) Prelude to second act of "Louise" Charpantier Overture to "Oberon" Weber Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Cooperative Society, Herrick's, and the Copley Theatre...
William E. Borah, Wesley L. Jones, Hendrik Shipstead, Thomas F. Bayard, Thaddeus H. Caraway?these five constitute the all-Senatorial group of vigilant keepers-of-their-brothers'-purses. In accordance with a resolution which Senator LaFollette carried through the Senate in the closing hours of Congress, they were chosen a committee to scrutinize the political expenditures and receipts of all parties, candidates and organizations. Last week they began their vigil...
...Keeps vigil off our coast...