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Soon the night watchman discovered R. M. C.'s loss. In his nightshirt the College bugler turned out 470 G. C.'s (gentlemen cadets) in their nightshirts. An officer barked out the rollcall. No cadet was missing, none showed marks of cannon-poaching. The 470 were sent back to bed. R. M. C. officers scratched their heads, reflected that Broadmoor Asylum for criminal lunatics is near Sandhurst...
...Once when Mr. Kingsbury was bound East, Banker Fleishhacker had great bunches of onions delivered to him at every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking and growling. Another time he set a trap in Mr. Kingsbury's office so that when the oilman...
...black rosettes packed into the historic old building. On the platform sat solemn elders in deep mourning. The Liberal Civic League had called the meeting "In memoriam of the death of Liberty and the 1,363 who have been killed in the war of Prohibition." Muffled drums rolled. A bugler blew taps. Chief speaker: Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards, retired, wartime commander of the 26th ("Yankee") Division, who asked for "laws promulgated by the ballot and not enforced by the bullets." When the band played the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the crowd rose and cheered...
...station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
...ground, at Woodlawn Cemetery near Manhattan. Two nights later, in the exact centre of Madison Square Garden, there was a prizefight and a ceremony. The ceremony was simple: Jack Dempsey climbed through the ropes; the announcer, red-faced Joe Humphreys, made a gesture; the lights went down; a bugler played taps. Presently the lights went on and Jimmy McLarnin, of Vancouver, Wash., beat Joe Glick, Brooklyn tailor...