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...such a creature, life is only too mechanical and humdrum. It would be an overdose of ippecac to ask such a man to read nothing but political and church news. When he reads about a murder, he identifies himself with the villain or the victim, he hears the gun crack, and thus he gets his daily thrill...
...clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...
...Critics. Practically every critic of importance has, in his time, taken a crack or so at Mr. Wright. With no apparent result except to boost Mr. Wright's sales...
Fenn successively took the first four events-the quarter, one-third, half and one-mile races. Willie Fenn, Sr., was a crack amateur cyclist 15 years...
Subsequent advices from Great Falls, Mont., where the champion is training for his fight with Gibbons, show that he shattered the jawbone of an oxlike sparring partner?one Ben Wray, seven-footer from Oklahoma?in a sparring bout. One thousand visiting Shriners paid $500 to hear the jaw crack...