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...Monday morning Laundry Bag Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries...
...born in a small village near Canton, where the people are the "old" Chinese, driven south centuries ago. As a boy, he traveled far to reside with his brother, a prosperous contractor, at Honolulu. There the spark of revolt against the lethargic and superstitious regime of the Son of Heaven was ignited. His brother feared for him, sent him back to his native village; but he had not long been there before he committed an act of irreverence toward a village god and was consequently expelled...
Gottlieb, seeing Arrowsmith's genius, loved him well, worked him cruelly, burned into him technic and skepticism so deeply that the boy was fashioned for his destiny before he met little Leora, who was to hold...
Those who have their ear to the ground for musical comedy, will be repaid by listening in on The Student Prince, The Grab Bag, Lady, Be Good; Big Boy, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, Music...
Some 90 years ago, a man-child was born into the family of a New York state dairy farmer and christened Jason. As that boy grew, according to popular tales, he acquired an education by hard work, invented a mouse-trap and performed sundry undistinguished feats. "It was in the year 1857 that this same person came into the business world with his first name shortened to Jay, and in possession of the Rutland & Washington R. R. He soon parted with this property at a profit and, in 1860, went down to Manhattan...