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Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...
Three enterprising and grateful Swiss immigrants have asked the Government for permission to construct a wrist watch for the Statue of Liberty, an especially, proportioned luminous dial on the arm that holds the torch. Diverting new symbolism the Statue will bear if the project is permitted. Not that Liberty will be marking time, on the contrary it will be up to the minute. To the scornful who jibe at our national efficiency, the watch will mean that we are a nation of time-servers, but others will find different interpretations. Kager-gazing foreigners will see at least one sign which...
...foreign port at which he has landed. Not more rigid inspection, but merely less component maneuvers of government officials, mysterious and inscrutable, keep the Traveller alert for hours beneath the statue, his trip over, his baggage ready, his friends just beyond sight on the dock waiting. Perhaps a new wrist watch on high might record the wasted hours and remind the inspectors of the value of time...
...Club of Cherokee Falls will be addressed this afternoon by Mr. Blank, the young American poet, who will take as his subject "Browning's Effect on Me". The one with the lorgnette will have another just like it and swell with emotion at intervals of ten seconds by the wrist watch her husband, gave her as a peace offering the last time he came back from a short business trip to New York and preferred blindes. The insignificant from--will hurry to tell Mr. Blank how she had read his verse while a college girls. He will look...
Captain W. T. Smith '26, who sprained his wrist slightly in scrimmage on Friday night, will be able to start at his regular birth at left forward when the University five plays its second game of the season against M. I. T. at the Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock this evening...