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...Protestant Nebraskans who crowded into Omaha to gawk and wonder, the Congress seemed just what it was, a great convention staged with more splendor than Protestants are wont to marshal. The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, opened the religious program with a pontifical high mass at St. Cecilia's Cathedral. Archbishop Francis J. L. Beckman of Dubuque preached an emotional sermon. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland assembled the Priests' Eucharistic League and admonished the men to greater activities in the propaganda of Catholicism. George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and U. S. Circuit Judge Martin Thomas Manton...
...second violin; Louis Kaufman, viola?are of U. S. birth. Critics agree that each is a virtuoso in his own right. The Quartet's origin was as casual as its playing has been brilliant. The four friends, students in the Institute of Musical Art at Manhattan, had long been wont to meet of an afternoon or evening and beguile the hours with music for their own entertainment. Often they played at the home of Efrem Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these three the quartet would become temporarily a quintet. Admirers prevailed...
...Until lip-readers complained, silent cinemactors were wont to mouth irrelevancies, vulgarities, even Hollywood obscenities before the camera...
...last week a stocky, swarthy, middle-aged man ate luncheon, as was his wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain...
...much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...