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...ships of the British Navy in temperate waters, from the dreadnaught Nelson to the little tug St. Abbs. In the tropics rum hour is 6 p. m. Then the seamen hear the quartermaster pipe, "Up spirits!" Down in the mess the caterer slops into each seaman's "basin" (bowl) one part rum in three parts water. The rum is mixed in a large tub around whose rim, in brass letters, are the words: "The King-God Bless Him." On the King's birthday all hands get a double ration of straight rum. First class petty officers get half...
When Jack Sharkey, jowled, beefy and 31, climbed into the ring of Philadelphia's Baker Bowl one night last week he became $25,000 richer. When Tommy Loughran, likewise 31, slack-bellied and scarred from 16 years of prizefighting, entered the opposite corner he knew he would collect not one cent for what was about to happen...
...schedule will include 28 inter-House games and at least one outside game for each team. The final game between the winning House team and the leading Yale College team will be played at New Haven on Saturday, November 18 in the Yale Bowl...
...that fell, and kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas called on 39-year-old Engelbert Dollfuss to form a Government. He gave no answer, but went to his favorite church and spent the entire night in prayer. In the morning he went home, bathed, shaved, ate a steaming bowl of his favorite potato soup with whipped cream, and accepted...
...Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni who had "won their Y in life...