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...meeting in the guise of a onetime financier who resigned the presidency of three large metal working plants in order that he might devote himself to altruistic service, and become: President of the Cleveland Y. M. C. A., President of the Welfare Foundation, and Chairman of the Cleveland Community Chest Campaign. Well pleased with him, the delegates re-elected Mr. Ramsey President and Speaker of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A. amid a tremendous demonstration...
...record in the social register were lined up in a big queue. Shortly before 10 o'clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel, and a small fraction...
...towel-tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight fans trooped out of Newark Armory (N. J.) after having seen exactly what they had expected-one of the most savage fights ever witnessed in the East. Pugilist Wills swelled out his chest of rippled ebony...
...your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...
...judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...