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...Flood inherited the bulk of his father's estate in 1889. All San Francisco knew of his high living, of the beauty of "Jim Flood's girl, Pete Fritz," a German girl who got her start in Shanghai. In the same year his father died San Francisco was scandalized to hear that Jim Flood's girl had left her widely known occupation, that he had married her. His friends avoided him for a while, but he and his Girl lived together happily, adopted a child called Constance May. When Rosina ("Pete") Fritz Flood died her husband promised...
...Aiken Knights polo team (George Herbert ["Pete"] Bostwick, Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Elbridge Thomas Gerry II, Robert Livingston Gerry Jr.): the Herbert Memorial Cup tournament at Rumson, N. J., defeating Army...
...hero of the picture, the 'legger whom she befriended (Ben Lyon), enters the children's sickroom and points a gun at the chauffeur, audiences are likely to show a reaction which is rarely provoked in the cinema without the aid of cowboys, ropes, revolvers and Dirty Pete, the cattle rustler -to clap hands loudly and chuckle with relief. Well photographed, directed and acted, Night Nurse achieves a higher plane in the cinema than it did as a novel written for the drugstore trade by Dora Macy. This is partly because of the medium, partly because Actress Stanwyck...
...Poughkeepsie Columbia was the favorite. Columbia had won its early season sprint races so easily. But there was a rumor that the boat had gone stale. Cornell, with baldheaded, 30-year-old Pete McManus in the waist of the shell and seven other heavy, experienced men bending to the barks of big-voiced little Coxswain Burke, had a splendid chance. Syracuse, with six veterans and the lightest crew in the race, was in the outside lane, least protected from the wind. Washington, having beaten California, seemed to be the best of the three Western crews. Wisconsin rows only...
...dark, handsome, nonchalant youth, clung to a bamboo pole painted green at the bottom, slightly longer and more springy than two others which he had brought with him from the Coast. A chipper young fellow, he had brought also a small red camera with which he expected his teammate Pete Chlentzos to take his picture when he set a new record. Chlentzos stood behind him now, patting the lower part of his back, repeating for the nth time the instructions about run, takeoff and rhythmical upswing which Coach Cromwell had discovered it was Graber's tendency to forget. Then Graber...