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...rotund little Frenchman, perspiring, slovenly, excited as a baker chasing stolen buns, rushed, dithering and gesticulating about the prize ring in the Polo Grounds, Manhat- tan. In frothing, broken accents he screamed at the referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing...
...remember a famous occasion when the proof of a so-called divorce scandal, which afterward became the subject of a whole nation's political whispering, was first brought into my office. We had an advisory committee during that campaign and I called them together and presented the alleged copies of certain love letters. I said I believed it was unreal, untrue and unsavory, and that I would...
...bias of a La Bruyère, and which contains much sober comment on the depravities of the times, the inefficiency of doctors, and the wantonness of the French attack upon the Rhineland.† Moreover, it escapes the condemnation of reading like a translation, which is the best proof of the good scholarship of the editor and translator...
Edward A. Filene's remarks before the Advertising Convention, London, made a particularly deep impression upon it. In Mr. Filene's opinion, mass-production, as now developed almost everywhere in the world, is bound to lead to mass-selling, which is dependent upon advertising. As proof of his contention, he stated that in the United States, about $628,000,000 was spent in advertising during...
...total population, which is a lower percentage, based on official figures, than that of Rumania (about 1.25%) or Yugo-Slavia (about 1%). While criticism is ever facile, it cannot but be noticed that Czecho-Slovakia, who has led Central Europe in peace talk, has at last given proof of her sincerity...