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...Pine Camp), invited Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to come over and spend the night. Senator Fess (whose farm relief bill was recently overwhelmingly defeated in Congress) predicted that Senator Willis, Republican Ohio Senatorial nominee, would defeat Atlee Pomerene, Democratic aspirant to the Senate. Next morning Mrs. Coolidge drove with Senator Fess back to Loon Lake...
...only taxes he lays upon his readers touch their credulity (he insists in the preface that all he tells has occurred in sober fact) and their squeamishness. Here is specimen Wren carnage: "It was no moment for kid-gloved warfare nor the niceties of chivalrous fighting, and I drove my sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone...
...camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...
...From 22 to the dollar (TIME, March 29) to 43 to the dollar last week. †He personally commanded the so-called "northern army group," consisting of both Belgian and French soldiers, which drove the Germans from Thourout, Ostend and Bruges, toward the end of the World War. During the whole War he remained with the Belgian army in the field, was often under fire, flew several times over the German lines...
Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...