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...author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with the sociology, or the presence of occasional unwarranted melodrama. For Deluge is an excellent good yarn. It is also this month's Book of the Month, chosen by the famed club of that name and purchased by its 73,000 members...
...face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee 50 to 30, and so winning a diamond studded medal, $300, and, for the third time in succession, the horseshoe pitching championship of the world...
...horned toad is nothing more than a little alligator that's been stepped on and mashed flat, and like his forbears that hibernate for months or years at a time, does not bother about the lapse of time...
...sounds sweet to be knocked out: no feeling at all," the heavyweight champion of New England told the reporter. "It doesn't bother a bit: you just get up and collect your wits and your money." He stopped to weigh in, while the CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been...
...Americans treat the opera as if it were a movie; they have absolutely no understanding for the art. They 'feel' music in an original and somewhat sentimental way, but they don't bother to test what is beneath the surface--the music comes in at one ear and goes right out of the other...