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Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...
...Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years he will be known as Lord Irwin, Viceroy...
Planetary Collisions. Colonel John Millis, retired Army engineer, expounded a new theory of planetary formation, including the proposition that collisions of large heavenly bodies shatter off fragments (such as Earth), which thereafter whirl around their coalesced parents as satellites...
...attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...
Harvard students owning automobiles are invited to join a modernization of the old-time torchlight procession which will whirl through every ward of the city of Cambridge tonight in a political demonstration for R. W. Robart, candidate for mayor of Cambridge...