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...bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than a wart on a deacon's ankle. He has a fist of iron, a heart of gold, imagination...
Featured at the Pops tonight will be the Ave Maria of Schubert Wilhelm for violin, harp, organ and strings. The complete program follows: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Evening in Venice Thomas Evening in Venice Dunham Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann Preamble Pierrot Chopin Reconnaissance Sphinxes Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ, and Strings) Guitarre Moskovski Irish Rhapsody Herbert Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Humoresque Dvorak Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzak
...kingdom which seems peculiarly to typify their own aspirations. Some months ago the New Republic listed a few of the animals chosen by secret orders of brotherly love, and the conclusion was that only about four animals remained unchosen. The New York zoo will have no requests for a wart hog, for instance, not for ant-eaters. If they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from...
...page, over which the late Frank I. Cobb (TIME, Dec. 31) presided. He took, too, a spacious office, at the far end of the city room, through the length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope decided that the Democrats would hold their 1924 Convention in Manhattan. At once the idea became "front page stuff" on the World. The rest of Manhattan smiled, knowing that the home of Tammany and Wall Street was not a convention town...
...opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened and not only opened but read "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Who ever read that book? Boswell, and we believe he actually did invert a bottle for three nights successively in the hope of driving away a wart...