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...many neat squares of green turf and white chalk which the West Side Tennis Court at Forest Hills, Long Island, provides for the game of lawn tennis, there flowered, last week, innumerable figures in white skirts and colored sweaters who arranged themselves in opposing pairs and began to move in the sunlight, forward and back, from side to side, like the bright porcelain dolls of some minute carnival, weaving a country-dance to music no one else could hear. They were the competitors in the Women's National Championship Tournament. At the end of the first day there were...
...they would like to employ him. So he became an assistant cashier. A year later, he was made cashier, three years later Vice President, and in another year more President?at age 32. The way he increased the bank's business was so marked that it soon had to move to larger quarters. Its lease had two years to run, and so Davison organized the Bankers' Trust Co. to fill the vacant quarters. Today it is the largest trust company in America...
There is a situation in Turkey of which Senator King presented two aspects. The basic fact of this situation is that the Turks have moved their capital from Constantinople to Angora, as have the Bolsheviki from Leningrad (Petrograd) to Moscow. At Constantinople many of the Powers have costly embassy buildings and are not disposed, as the Turkish Government would have them do, to move to Angora, which, as a city, is neither prepossessing nor conveniently situate. But the chief reason upon which their refusal is based is the expense of building new embassy or legation quarters at primitive Angora...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
...know it; he was drowned head and heel in black water, the fathomless seas of fatigue. The tide set its knee in his chest and pushed him back toward France. Once he was only 600 yards from shore; but then for 30 yards he was borne back, unable to move his arms. Abruptly, with a tremendous agony of the will, he rallied; a little fire came back to his blood and he began, with pitifully feeble strokes, to swim...