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...press was filled with reports that a pair of "Siamese twins", born in Brooklyn, had been cut asunder so successfully that, though one died, the other would live to be a healthy man. Both infants were alleged to be perfectly formed, save that the deceased one had, instead of a right leg, a shapeless growth connecting him to the abdomen of his brother. Surgeons were said to have "hurried from all parts of the country" to see the "unprecedented result" of Dr. Philip Mininberg's plastic surgery...
...became world's champions. Jack Beresford, Jr., of England, Henley single sculls champion, swatted past W. Garrett Gilmore of Philadelphia to the world's singles title (amateur) and the Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup, emblematic of that honor. Switzerland took the four-oared race with coxswain; Holland the pair-oared without coxswain; Great Britain the four-oared without coxswain...
Assembled upon this field of sad memories were half a million souls. Red officers and soldiers in many uniforms; workers in white and blue blouses; Communist athletes, male and female, the former naked except for a pair of trunks, the latter clothed in white shirts and short blue knickers; English Communists from the Clyde, dressed in sombre Sunday-go-to-meeting garments; Communist boys and girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue...
...orphan determined to play the "glad game." This was the same little corner she had brightened before, and naturally it falls on its neck to make her welcome, it has not forgotten the wistful little minister's daughter who even found something to be "glad" about when a pair of crutches was all that came for her in the missionary barrel...
...pair of greedy boys from the French family next door got the Wimbledon bowl away from John's American cousins just before everyone went home. This might not have happened, some thought, if little "Vinnie" Richards, one of the Americans, had gone to bed earlier the week of the party, had not guzzled so much of the punch...