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When Prohibition came into effect Kip and Maggie May, united, rejoiced. When it fell into desuetude they mourned, wished they could do something about it. Kip's chance came when his employer, Banker Fessenden, went into the 'legging racket and had liquor run ashore of nights under Kip's unsleeping nose. One night the watchman was shot. At the coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone...
While tennis was spreading over the U. S. and about the world, Richard Dudley Sears, waving his thick-framed racket at Newport and on the smooth lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston, held the championship for seven years. He might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th...
...fourth set, Lott gave signs of having lost part of his temper, with good reason. He had had Vines 5-2; then Vines had won his own serve, broken through on Lett's, was winning his own again to tie the score. Lott beat his leg with his racket, lay on the court for a full minute after falling down. He dusted off his trousers with a towel, whacked a ball high into the grandstand when he missed a point, yelped when he missed another. When Vines won the tenth game, Lott, Vines and 10,000 spectators knew the match...
Just To Remind You, In the theatre, last week was a dire week for the nation's infirmities. First there was Just To Remind You, a sturdy expose of the U. S. laundry racket. Then there was Ladies Of Creation, in which the interior decorating business was delicately satirized (see p. 54). After that came The Man On Stilts, which attempted to skewer the mild insanity which surrounds flagpole sitters, marathon dancers and the like...
Gillette lured Miss Brown to the Adirondacks and Big Moose Lake under a promise of marriage, took her for a boat ride, murdered her with a tennis racket, overturned the boat, swam to shore, later being apprehended, tried and convicted for first degree murder. He was electrocuted at Auburn after having confessed...