Word: innermost
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Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...
...Palmer of Wayne Pa., whose points gave him the championship. Dr. E. K. Roberts of Ventura, Calif., was second; A. W. Lambert, of the St. Louis Listerine clan was third. For the first time in national tournament history, six golds were made at 40 yards. A gold is the innermost circle of the target, counts nine points in scoring. The target consists of a central disc, 9.6 inches in diameter, four concentric rings each 4.8 inches wide, painted respectively from within out, gold, nine points; red, seven; blue, five; black, three; white, one point. Dr. Roberts made six golds...
James Maloney, one of South Boston's two contenders for champion Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown, found time between a series of strenuous three-round exhibition bouts at Loew's Orpheum Theatre, to divulge the innermost workings of the prizefighters' mind to a CRIMSON reporter...
...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...
...Only God," wrote Miss Hurst in final desperation, "and Mrs. Hall probably know what is in her innermost soul...