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...know it. She is an old woman now, but she has not lost the knack that caused her name to be for so many years practically synonymous with a certain type of mystery story. This one has all the old ingredients shaken up with all the old vigor...
...Beranger" is in direct contrast to "The Life of Man", being of a lighter character. Guitry pictures biographically the life of the famous poet, Beranger, with all his pleasures and his conflict with Talleyrand. The play has been translated by Howard Phillips '23 without detracting from its wit or vigor...
...when he was a young President of Harvard, he "turned the place over like a flapjack." It is not surprising that Theodore Roosevelt, born when Dr. Eliot was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics at Harvard and dying when his college President was still in the vigor of his age, should have said of him: "He is the only man in the world I envy...
...When a passenger of the foot hove in sight tootle the horn, trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your passage, tootle him with vigor and express by word of the mouth the warning...
...river all is peaceful again after the Lent races. Although in one or two rather conspicuous instances vigor completely outshone style and finish, the standard of the rowing was such as to promise plenty of good material for the more important May races held at the beginning of June. Jesus College retained the headship of the river...