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When Christiane and Hannes met again they were both married, and neither marriage had turned out well. It was just a matter of time before island gossips had something more than rumor to wag their tongues over: Hannes and Christiane ran off together. But that was no life for Hannes who was a bachelor farmer by blood, and he left Christiane to rescue his rundown farm. Too late he found that she meant more to him than anything. After their child was born dead Christiane returned to her husband, Hannes to his haunted farm...
...right arm straight into the air. This salute when made quickly closely resembles the Nazi salute. To most spectators, the, acknowledgment which the athletes gave as they passed Herr Hitler, standing on the balcony of the club house, doubtless appeared to be a return of his own Nazi hand-wag. To avoid giving this impression, the 115 U. S. athletes, next to last in the alphabetically arranged procession, failed to salute at all, merely turned eyes right. When they were cheered less loudly than the rest, U.'S. correspondents cabled that the U. S. team had been "snubbed...
...Okeson believes that football and all intercollegiate competition is more likely to endure if the colleges strictly control such competition and keep it in its proper place. "The tail cannot forever wag the dog," he says. "As a passing spectacle it may be interesting to observe such a freak of nature, but think of the feelings of the dog. Even a dog has pride, and it behooves us who love football to remember that colleges also have pride in traditions and achievements that far outshadow the winning of a few games. If we forget it we may wake up some...
...most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge can scarcely be said to exist where one finds such a contradiction, and the Dachshund or the Dalmatian, the Great, Dane, or the Alsatian, may well wag their respective tails...
...year ago last October an undergraduate wag decided he would ask the President if the bells could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank