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With age the animal grew fat, and kicked. "Portrait painting," he would burst out, "is a pimp's profession." He amused himself increasingly with watercolor landscapes, to which he gave a wet, soft and unconvincing glisten. .During World War I, Sargent sketched and painted at the front-an act of courage and enterprise which nevertheless achieved little. He had visited the U.S. on occasion, and never relinquished his U.S. citizenship. Toward the end he accepted a corn-mission to design murals for the rotunda and entrance hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which he hoped would...
...Baptise her. The Bishop granted it. She says, I am much obliged. I demand Bapt'sm at your hands, seeing that you are so inconsiderate as to require a woman to be immersed when the water is full of snow and Ice . . . Perhaps if your back side gets wet in Ice water you will be more careful how you decide again. The majority of the People said, Stick him to it, Emma, it is but Just. But the Bishop made an Excuse to go ... & got out of it." Bull & Scapegoat. In the last years of his life, Lee needed...
...hearty football fan who has endured the elements all season once again found himself at odds with the weather today. All the combined efforts of the 60,000 Harvard and Yale fans who were due to arrive by today could not keep away the inevitable wet. Today's variety was not equal to the torrents which saturated the Eli rooters during the Cornell game, and the Crimson fans during the Columbia and Princeton games, but it was of the most annoying variety--a soft mixture of snow and rain, finally changing to snow at game time...
Last night, the weather was cold and dry at Yale, but the campus itself was very much warm and wet as large crowds lined the fraternity bars off York Street. Although Yale's President had asked that the state liquor laws be observed, it seemed that anyone who could afford thirty-five cents for a beer, was served, regardless...
...wet snow was a poor background for the game, but a group of energetic Yalies from Berkeley and Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half...