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...half-house the rent of which he had paid as City Councillor, Mayor, State Legislator, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Vice President ?and which, as President, he owns. He had come that he might see, and that his wife might see a sternly sweet old lady. Elmira, mother of Grace Goodbue. Thin white hair gathered closely about her head, broad white lace neatly pinned about throat, an erect figure in which much strength remains-that is what one would have seen had he steepped indoors with the President...
...that is artistic without being vulgar and is the one ac- tress today who can wink without being suggestive. She has the grace that even Duse did not have...
...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...
...Taunton, Somerset, England, Jack Hobbs, "Babe Ruth of cricket," sped between wickets. When he had finished running he had completed his 126th century, thus equalling the record set up many years ago by the famed and bearded cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace...
...Grace record, which Hobbs has now equalled, was never expected to be surpassed-but it will be. Dr. Grace played cricket for 41 years, from the age of 17 until he was 58. Hobbs will, if the fates are disposed, play first-class cricket for many long years to come. To boot, he has this season yet to finish. It seems therefore certain that he will soon become the greatest batsman in the annals of cricket...