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...Tunney's guard, a panther striking. Then an amazing thing happened. Tunney held his terrible arms. The referee parted their shoulders and Tunney, with a right and left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness, who are longing to be released, who are longing to find happiness...
Despatches failed to reproduce the phrases-but doubtless they rang on this note-of José Munoz-Cota, 19, of the National Preparatory School of Mexico (Mexico City) who last week vanquished representatives of five other districts of Mexico in an oratorical contest with a ten-minute oration on "Bolivar and Latin-American heroes." Other things that José must have referred to about Bolivar-things that made him not merely Bolivia's but Colombia's and Peru's and indeed all Latin-America's George Washington-Napoleon-Mussolini...
...village of Samnaun, Switzerland, an old man entered a church a recent Sunday. He rang the bell a few minutes and then, as nobody came, mounted the altar and read a passage from the Bible. After the lesson he said a prayer and left the church, locking the door behind him. Every alternate Sunday for many years this old man has held such services. He is a Protestant, the only Protestant in Samnaun. Eighty years ago half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate...
...While it rang, Monsignor Seampini, parish priest of the Apostolic Palaces, was proceeding through and blessing all the rooms of the Vatican. His duties done, he appeared before His Holiness, knelt and prayed, while holy water was sprinkled. Then the Pope placed coins in the holy water, to symbolize the Church's charity...