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...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...strengthen it, the product and the girl who lured him are visited by the stork. The girl has a suspicious cough and a virtuous sister. The Westerner becomes a sturdy Congressman. You can figure out what happens for yourself. If you can't, don't bother to attend. The mystery isn't worth...
...ENGLISH. Don't bother much about the play. Just go to watch George...
...institution of divisional examinations for the graduating classes of Harvard, we must expect to find that as a concordia discors there will spring up the tradition of railing against them as so much unnecessary inhibition, as so much of that traumatic stuff which Freud would assure us will bother the graduates for the remainder of his celibate or marital existence--chiefly the latter, for it is a sorry truism, known even to a Freshman, that man gives hostages to fortune in monogamy, and even in polygamy. . . . But we digress. What we meant to say was that in this communication...
...Bother Mother. Rather a good title, this. Rather a good cast, too, was assembled. Decidedly a terrible show, the audience thought. In plot, it was one of those domestic comedies. The appearance was for special matinees. The idea was to establish it in an evening theatre if it made...