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...match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days, and that except for that one day at Moor Park he hadn't had any practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective to get him out of bed on time...
Ethel Barrymore was alarmed and vexed when she learned that her 18-year-old son, spry Samuel Colt, was wanted by the police department of Manhattan. After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine...
...clout. Jones drive came in the third frame, sending in John Prior '29 and A. G. Whitney '29, who had both been walked. In the same inning, J. P. Chase '28 crossed the plate on Donaghy's four base blow. In the sixth, with no one on base, Barbee drove out the third home run of the contest...
...will say, Herr Badchis, that you turned on only enough electricity to make her talk. But instead she laughed. . . . She always laughs now. . . . You drove...
...late James Jerome Hill drove the last spike into the ties of the Northern Pacific railroad and the Atlantic coast became tied thereby to the Pacific coast by steel rails. It was a dramatic event, which kept the entire country talking. Hartford capitalized the "news" interest by renaming his company the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In 1912 telephones were taken out of A. & P. stores. Credit and delivery privileges were no longer granted customers. These changes brought an increase in business of 65%. Three years ago the company was reincorporated as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America...