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Seven members of the straggling crowd did no cheering. All seven were native Bosnians, but three of them-young Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabezh, Nedelyko Chabrinovitch-had arrived three weeks earlier from Belgrade, sent by the Ujedinjenje Hi smrt (known as the "Black Hand" Society, sworn to reunite Bosnia and Serbia). They had bombs and revolvers to murder the Archduke, and during the three weeks, with the help of a local conspirator, Hitch, they had recruited and armed three Sarajevo youngsters to aid in the attempt...
Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...
...first to arrive for the first meeting of the recently established C. I. O. executive board was President Lewis himself, looking hot and tired in summer whites. "Hi, Jim, how are you, boy?" he greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West...
...thousand Hi-Y boys (junior members of the Y. M. C. A.) gathered round a platform in the Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair. In their centre, a torch in his hand and a pile of wood at his feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots...
Instead of snorting: "Slush!" Grumpy (Grincheux) sniffs: "Que c'est moche!" Hit tunes: Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, Pour chasser les ennuis (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, To Make Our Troubles Go), Sifflez en travaillant (Whistle While You Work...