Word: featness
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...that few men would have cared to leap from it, still fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two curmudgeons-Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 78, and Otto Hagburgh, 71-lately performed this feat in England. The London Times' photo showed then in midair...
...like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts on the green, and a caddy wrote 6 on his scorecard. Watch Fob was one up. On Hole 2, Watch Fob put his approach up behind a tree, and his clumsy attempt to bunt it onto the the green gave...
...contrast as a feat of news-gathering was the publication of income tax payments by the newspapers. The extreme example of efficiency in this respect was probably attained by The New York Times, At 9.30 one morning income tax collectors turned over to the press, books full of names, addresses, amounts, unarranged, unclassified. At each office in New York City, the Times had a battery of stenographers, each group supervised by a reporter. All New York City tax payments of $500 or more were copied. In addition the telegraph wires brought in all tax payments of more than...
...bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon the greasy floor. Of this daring feat no tongman seems to tire...
...Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy's opponent in the Wimbleton finals in 1905, 1906, 1907. put out Miss Marion Williams of California, 6-1, 6-4. Miss Joan Fry, 19-year old Wimbleton (England) finalist, was no small...