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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curiously illogical is the influence of morals and manners on the fortunes of musical and theatrical folk. Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one...
The famed young man, Private Christian Keener Cagle of Company B, does not find that being "the greatest football halfback since Red Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and...
The lower half of the draw was Francis T. Hunter against the field. This contained 37-year-old Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916 who in the round before the quarter-finals played what tennis players considered the most brilliant tennis of the tournament in beating young...
What is such a "first solo" experience? In a sense, always much the same. In 1918--in 1929. Wartime or peacetime. Army or business. A mental hazard-the "wind up" fear of the unknown and of self-then a man "comes through" according to whatever he has in him to...
Professor Holcombe's attitude in completely revising Government 1, to answer constantly growing criticism of what was almost generally conceded to be the classic example of the preparatory school course in college, is a step so obviously in the right direction that it deserves more than passing mention from those...