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...Ellery ("Around the World on One Leg") Walter all praise for reaching Moscow. TIME quoted Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.'s Engineer Clarence Warren who said, on returning from Russia with Mrs. Warren (TIME...
...town game. Ingenuous Nick gets cheated on his first excursion; the next time he gets punched in the face. The third time he wins, and afterward uses a big-town barber shop as a blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives...
...headed, squint-eyed, friendly, Templeton is celebrated particularly for his success with weight throwers. He once studied the leg-motions of ostriches in the hope of finding out something that would improve his sprinters. Dink Templeton writes his own newspaper copy. He prepared a story soon after last week's meet in which he called McCluskey the most courageous runner he had ever seen. He also said: "His [Graber's] five points, three and four-fifths more than Bert De-Groot took with his tie for third, provided the decisive blow which killed father...
...Chicago last week a Mrs. Mary Loretta Watson, 48, made a mistake about her pet bulldog which she had had for five years. She deprived him of a bone. Whereupon he dashed at her, gripped her leg. She tripped. Her calf tore loose in the dog's mouth. She screamed. He tore at her again and again, even after she fainted from loss of blood. A policeman's bullet ended the dog's attack. His mistress died...
...Michipicoten, an Ontario village so small that every neighbor could testify to the event, I. Quick's house cat broke its leg last week. Mr. Quick put the cat and a stone into a stout bag, and with some neighbors walked over to the river, into which he heaved the loaded bag. It floated down the river, over the falls, into the rapids 123 feet below. The party strolled back to Mr. Quick's home. On the front porch squatted the cat, licking its broken leg...