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...eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane and gloves of late. That was, however, all right...
...eight finalists at the most who were then assembled in Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then for three successive weekends...
...Crimson, team of Donald McKay, Charles Hutter, Peter Arioli, and Darie Berizzi were responsible for the Crimson's first victory against the Buildings earlier this season when they wen the 400-yard relay in 3.41.6 minutes, faster than the Varsity time. Their best efforts] last night, however, were no equal to the 1:42 minutes of their speedy opponents...
...mysterious disappearance of William II. Sehmidt '37, chairman of he Freshman Jubilee Committee, at a late hour last evening led to rumors of Kidnapping. Friends claim to have wen him Whisked away in a strange Automobile on Massachusetts Avenue during the commotion which took place first night...
...this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, Dr. H. H. Kung. Her little Brother Tse-wen ("Scholarly Son") became Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror, and her greatest Finance Minister and the 75th descendant...