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...little difficult to place her as a simple New York stenographer during her first few days in Paris. She looked and acted as though she were born there. The dialogue as spoken by Miss Bennett is polished and, at times satirically clever, but McKenna is a bit ponderous over some of his best lines...
...suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting is his main exercise when he is not getting ready for a bout...
...Oldsters recall how in 1901 and again from 1905 to 1907 Amalgamated Copper Co. forced the price up in defiance of economic laws, only to see it tumble back. Notable was the rise of copper in 1929, its subsequent, demoralization. Last week the industry, statistically, had recovered not a bit from this last collapse. Stocks of copper in the Americas were at a new high of 605,000 tons. Shipments (deliveries to consumers) had gained slightly over the previous month, were still behind production. African production was running high. The price was at 9½?, did not seem secure...
...moved into the old diggings last night and found things much as he had left them. There, perhaps, he can light his pipe and put his feet upon the mantle with the old spirit and find time to digest a bit of his learning. When, and if, he gets back from New Haven Sunday he'd be glad to see a few of the old friends at the old stand...
...adherence to its eligibility ruling and the season's records have shown that the latter rule makes for better teams. But until Army changes its policy and gets on equal footing with the Navy, a meeting of the two teams, except for the worthy charity involved, seems a bit futile...