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...local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only one, the strongest and canniest of the lot. Through a long round of seasons he added to his foxy lore, while around him the other creatures of the woods added to theirs also, or died...
...planted two solid lefts on Lewis' face. Stung but not stunned, Lewis retaliated with a hard right. In the rounds that followed, McAvoy continued to charge his bigger, heavier adversary. Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with the legs of a chair. When McAvoy led for the face, Lewis jarred him with a left jab. When he fought from a crouch, Lewis used an uppercut or chopped at his ears with a hacking right. After 15 rounds of this...
Departmental Ditties were dashed off in India and printed by Cub Reporter Kipling himself in spare moments, then sold by postcard solicitation to Pukka Sahibs with an ease which made Salesman Kipling scoff contemptuously in later years when fashionable publishers tried to cry into his ale about the "risks" they say they take. He took his own risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns...
Last year several air-minded Harvardians availed themselves of the opportunity to pursue this sport at an airport in Norwood. There was enough call for time to make it worth while to keep one ship equipped with skis throughout the winter. The one used was a Taylor Cub powered by a 40 horsepower Aeromarine engine...
...There's a robber in the House-or maybe in the Senate." Publisher Will Rogers Jr. gave Patricia Ziegfeld, whose late father started the late cowboy humorist to fame in the Follies, a job as cub reporter on his Beverly Hills (Calif.) Citizen. Miami Beach lifeguards spied a porpoise-like swimmer going down for the second time, hauled safely ashore Massachusetts' Senator David Ignatius Walsh, 63. Chirped a radio announcer at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington: "I also see among other distinguished guests Mr. Jesse James of the RFC." Said RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones: "I have...