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Ripples of humor, snatches of sentiment are shrewdly set off against two scenes of primitive brutality: 1) a bare-knuckle fight between The Hoboken Terror and Bully Boy Brewster; 2) a whipping post episode where Patricia, under the curling lash, breaks down and repudiates her masculine pretense...
...story is all in tight trousers and tall hats?the curiously attractive garb of a century ago. Patricia O'Day comes to Manhattan from Ireland. En voyage she is forced to discard female finery and gear herself out in the clothing of a boy. The rest of her adventures transpire amid the rarefied air of high society and the heavier atmosphere of the lowest stratum during the days when the city structures had not begun to scrape...
...boy Moody had been brought up a Unitarian. When he went to Boston, to work in his uncle's shoe store, he got the job only on the condition that he attend a Congregational Church and Sunday school. Even after a year's attendance he was refused admission into this Church because his theology was judged unsound , but later th deacons admitted "the shoe clerk." In 1856 Moody went to Chicago, and became a great success as a traveling shoe salesman. He accumulated $7,000 of the $100,000 on which he had set his heart. Not forgetting...
Fifty-three countries sent 817 delegates to a twelve-day conference at Portschach (southern Austria) to discuss The Place of the Boy in the Nations of the World. The official language, in the words of an Englishman, Basil Matthews, was " English, or perhaps I should rather say, American." The conference was deeply stirred by reports of boy labor under terrible conditions in the developing factory system of the Far East...
...called it as brave a fight as ever boxer fought), 30,000 Americans jammed in the New York Polo Grounds booed. It was probably the worst example of collective unsportsman-ship this country has exhibited at an international sporting event. The answer is that Dundee is a New York boy, and New York wanted him to win. It is simply the answer - there is no justification...