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Meeting in Chicago, the National Association of Basketball Coaches voted for the most drastic rule change in 25 years, a rule to prevent "stalling." Henceforth, a team in possession of the ball in its back court must advance it past the centre of the court within 10 sec. or lose the ball at the nearest sideline...
Continually harassed by Prohibition agents in their Manhattan Night Club, the company decides to carry on henceforth on the safe side of the Rio Grande. There Mr. Overman offers to make Mr. Lahr a bull fighter, working him up to a great pitch of excitement by pointing out that all the women will want to make love to him. As to the dangers, Mr. Lahr has to admit that in his anxiety he had been "making a mountain out of a Dunhill." His courage rises even higher when Mr. Overman drags out a small, moony-eyed calf which he says...
...Shaw, was adopted at Locarno, twelve years later "when it was unanimously applauded as a triumph of British statesmanship." When the War broke, Shaw saw in its confusion a good opportunity for Socialists to snatch a political victory, told them "there are only two real flags in the world henceforth: the red flag of Democratic Socialism and the black flag of Capitalism." Patriotic indignation overflowed. By open letter Shaw tried to persuade Wilson to request that Great Britain, France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity...
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...spring of 1867 a youthful musician harbored secret plans for running away to join a circus band. For seven weary years he had assiduously scraped his practice fiddle; now with all the confidence that the maturity of his thirteen summers could impart, he determined to practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read...