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...silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that she was his mother, and projected him disinterestedly into the arms of young and charming Consuelito. The whole is a swift, colorful story, roaming...
...Haven, Conn., October 16.--Charles Nash Blunt of Port Huron, Mich., a freshman at Yale, was severely injured last night when he fell four stories onto a concrete walk in front of Fayerweather Dormitory here last night. He was still on the danger list in a hospital today...
Blunt was climbing along a narrow window ledge from one room to another when he lost his balance and fell. He hit on his side and sustained a broken elbow, a fractured leg, and serious internal injuries...
Harvard rejoiced in Quarterback Cheek, in Backs Zarakov and Gehrke, as she fell upon Virginia, 14 to 0. Cheek is a line-knifer; Zarakov an artful, eel-hipped dodger; Gehrke's punts sail...
...yelled as, within the ring, Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, began to ram his fists against the body and flaming head of Bobby Barrett, challenger. After swinging heavily with his right once or twice, Barrett sank to the floor before Walker's battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only...