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Competing only in the foils, the first-year fencers have lost one match out of three starts. In last Saturday's match against the Brunswick High School aggregation, the sabre and epee as well as the foils were contested, and the Crimson Freshmen went down to a 13 to 4 defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. This setback was mainly the result of the inexperience of the 1932 sabre and epee contestants. The foilsmen succeeded in holding their own to fair advantage...
...incidentally to escape Montmorency; she and Lois ventured into the gloom, relishing a fear that was "a kind of deliciousness." A crop of nettles, a dead cow, and by the stairs a prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that ignored his existence, gave tennis...
...that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries had laid fiery waste to Danielstown...
...that he dealt in picture frames, paintings and etchings. Sir Joseph's lawyer, Louis S. Levy, was quick, acid. "The picture frames are a very big part of your business, aren't they?" Mr. Hug's murmurous answer was lost in his throat. Soon afterward he went away, assisted by bailiffs...
Born in dismal Hoboken, N.J., in 1864, Stieglitz went to private and public schools and to the College of the City of New York. Following his father's wishes, he studied mechanical engineering. But photochemistry and photography allured him, and he turned to these subjects, receiving a thorough Germanic induction at the Berlin Polytechnic School and the University of Berlin (1888-90). Returning to Manhattan, he practiced photo-engraving for three years, experimented in three-color work, married Emmeline Obermeyer of New York. Then, in 1895, at 31, he "retired...