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...President of the Prohibition Council of Australia protested against beer being served to sailors at public functions, saying: "The sailors come to us clean and wholesome...
Besides anecdotes, the book has sketches of such folk-quirky pen-and-inks that bring home to you what a man Orpen is for line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...
...developed that a report which newspaper correspondents had sent out to the effect that the President had seen rum runners anchored in front of his house at Swampscott and had asked General Lincoln C. Andrews (see PROHIBITION) to clean up the Massachusetts coast was based on the facts 1) that some vessels which were observed on the bay might have been rum runners, 2) in a cottage near White Court previous to the President's arrival, a liquor cache had been discovered. The President denied that he had made any request of General Andrews...
...Wyoming. There was also the son of Mrs. Ross, a lad of 10, of whom Governor Brewster of Maine remarked to the conclave assembled at breakfast: "I was anxious to see that he presented the best possible appearance here. I wanted his clothes brushed and his hands and face clean. When I told him that he should look his best he remarked: 'My mother won't know me if I'm clean...
Trans-Mississippi (amateur). At Omaha, Trans-Mississippi Champion James Manion, St. Louis, teed his ball on the first tee at the Omaha Field Club. His fellow townsman, Don Anderson, had played him to a standstill, all square in 18 holes. James Manion knocked this 19th drive clean into 36th Street, out of bounds. There went his title. Clarence Wolfe, another St. Louisan, subdued Anderson that afternoon, 2 and 1. In the final, Wolfe broke the course record with a 70. His opponent, Arthur Bartlett of Ottumwa, la., promptly countered with a 69, but lost to a fighting finish. Champion Wolfe...