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Whimsical, the advertisement which blighted Broker Blennerhassett began: "Take warning of the fate of Mr. Blennerhassett, as worthy a citizen as ever ate lobster at Pimm's or holed a putt at Walton Heath. 'Sound Man,' they said in Throgmorton Street...
...past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz ate no pie, won the high jump next day with a new intercollegiate record of 6 ft. 6| in. ¶ For the last three years. Fordham's Joe McCluskey has won every race he has entered against undergraduate opponents. Second in many of them-but always beaten by at least 40 yards...
...tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it had no trailer license. While courts, police and lawyers bickered over contracts, licenses, and sanitation laws, the Durs cooked, ate. slept in the bungalow, got a summons for parking overtime, reached Babylon two days late...
...meat, says Welzl, but dogs can always spot such a man. When he comes to a village "whole packs of dogs shuffle after him and water him: a man like that ought to be pitied." He confesses he is fond of bear's meat himself, says he "often ate a huge pot of bear-stew at one sitting. Sometimes I ate three bears in a month...
...collection plate. A clerk in a Schulte cigar store said he had enough change for a week. ''But, for God's sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...