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...chief lacerators were Harry Greb, untiring Pittsburgh dervish, and Ted Moore, British challenger for Greb's world's middleweight boxing title. Moore's "beak"* and "button"? afforded the champion 15 rounds of target practice with few interruptions...
ANCIENT FIRES-I. A. R. Wylie- Button ($2.00). Just why the hero of this breathless, love-and-adventure, intrigue-and-heroism tale had to be named John Smith remains a mystery. The story starts out in a quiet little English cathedral town, but the pace rapidly grows too swift for that atmosphere, so the locale is blithely transferred to one of those imaginary, comic-opera little countries in Central America...
...George's Day, April 23, King George "will press the button that will light the lights, start the wheels and will declare open the gigantic hundred-million dollar advertisement of virtually everything the British Commonwealth produces for sale." In other words, the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, six miles from Piccadilly Circus, under construction for two years, will have been officially opened to the public...
...seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work of the hilt has become a guard of ordinary steel. There are, however, one or two consolatory features. From being the defense of the aristocratic few, sword-play, by means of fencing, has developed into a form of pleasurable exercise for the many...
When Turkey went to war against the Allies in 1914, the most dreaded weapon in her armory was the threat of the Jehad or Holy War-power to declare which was vested in the office of the Califate. Dutifully the Calif pushed the button. Nothing much happened. The Jehad did not prevent the British Moslems and the French North African troops from fighting against the Central Powers, nor did it hold back the Arabs from declaring their independence and fighting as Allies of the British in Palestine. The Jehad proved to be a "dud" shell; but when the Grand National...