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...matter. A chorus of other cries of "falsehood! "were raised: Restorers of statues for French museums had removed statues and returned imitations. Six fake antique statues had been sold to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Twenty per cent of the Gothic statuary in the Metropolitan was not bona fide. A prominent New York and Paris dealer made a practice of selling clever forgeries to " These dirty Americans," et cetera, et cetera...
...natural and absolutely bona fide set of teeth have for several months been growing steadily in the jaws of John F. Koter, of Gulf Summit, N. Y., 88 years...
...keep out of the United States some of the prospective students who, by all accounts, are coming to the United States in steadily increasing numbers to study in our educational institutions. Provided the Washington authorities are given satisfactory evidence in each instance that the applicant is a bona fide student, and that he (or she) does not intend to take up a permanent residence in the United States, the public interest will not suffer if the three per cent quota is exceeded by a few hundreds or thousands...
...love with one of Miss Hyden's charges, Dorothy Wendall, played by D. McK. Key '22. Driven to desperation by the thought of Dorothy's departure, he plans a meeting to prevent the landing aat Savanah. Unwittingly he acquires the aid of two sailrs who have planned a bona fide mutiny, and for a time the revolt takes on alarming proportions. It is put down, however with no damage to the ship but the decimating of the biscuit isupply, Knowing well that he must remedy this condition, Captain Driggs lands on Uneeds Island in the Bahamas, where the company...
...Gloucester again compete, has aroused, a storm of quite justified indignation in Canadian ports. The Halifax "Herald" which originally gave the trophy, conveys in an especially caustic editorial, the sentiments held by all lovers of fair play on both sides of the border. The cup was offered for bona-fide fishing vessels only and the races were to be sailed in whatever weather Dame Fortune saw fit to provide at the time scheduled for the race. Special hulls and fair-weather rigging have their place in marine circles, but an offshore run under working conditions, in working hulls, with working...