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...long time Joie Ray was the best miler in the U. S. But he was more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
Clarence H. De Mar won the race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension...
...conflict between the idealism of Pa Holmes and the realism which characterises the attitude of his worthy spouse, Anna. Mr. Holmes is a laborer whose aim in life is promoting the Brotherhood of man, and in pursuance of this theory he brings home one night a "fille de joie" named Violet Hunt, who, much against the wishes of Mrs. Holmes is established in the family. The son of the house Alf, deserting his former unprepossessing sweetheart, falls in love with Violet, and his marriage is supported by his father, the idealist. Mrs. Holmes, however walks out of the house...
...edification of yourself and the readers of TIME I respectfully refer you to Guy de Maupassant's short story "Mademoiselle Fifi," wherein you may learn of the characteristic difference between Jewish and non-Jewish filles de joie. Which may also explain why Princes of Royal Nordic descent prefer Jewesses...
...Subscriber Sperling explain his meaning. "Mademoiselle Fifi" is the nickname of a Prussian officer, created in fiction by Guy de Maupassant, who has him propose (in 1870) to five French filles de joie (one of them a Jewess) and his brother officers, the toast: "Ours, every woman of France...