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...will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see craché, Vol. I, p. 878, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, edited by E. Littré; Paris...
Gleason L. Archer Jr. '38, Boston, Mass.; Walter P. Arenwald '38, New York, N. Y.; Joseph N. Ball Jr. '40, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert H. Clapp '40, Watertown, Mass.; David E. Feller '38, Harrisburg, Pa.; George M. Firestone '40, St. Paul, Minn.; Tudor Gardiner '40, Boston, Mass.; Robert E. Lane '39, New York, N. Y.; Victor A. Lewison '39, New York, N. Y.; Wells Lewis '39, New York, N. Y.; Elpenor R. Ohle '38, Stonington, Conn...
Paul Olum '40, Binghampton, N. Y.; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Cambridge, Mass.; Bernard J. Siegel '39, Superior, Wis.; Alan S. Trueblood '38, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.; and William Q. Wolfson '39, Brooklyn, N. Y...
...chagrin of the clubwomen and President Lyons, who never misses an opportunity to proclaim the cultural advantage of "The Borough of Universities" (Fordham, N. Y. U.), less than 500 people came to the opening concert. Foreseeing deficits of $1.500 per concert, the thrifty backers of The Bronx Symphony backed out. Last week, for the time being at least, The Bronx Symphony appeared faced with the appalling prospect of meeting its contracts with Mr. Marrow and his men by holding concerts in Brooklyn or Manhattan. Wistfully to President Lyons the pressagent of the Symphony wrote that the performance had been...
...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew