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...were picked to win this year because they were fast and clever, because their centre, Frank Boucher, is the smartest poke-checker in the game, because their two bald defense men, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson and Clarence ("Taffy") Abel, are heavy and efficient, because Bill Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh and is engaged to be married, is surpassed as a skater only by the famed Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens. All season big crowds (from...
...Wellesley rowing came into the public eye and the public eye was pleased, for pretty little Maimie Sze, daughter of the Chinese Minister to the U. S., was appointed captain of the freshman crew. No muscled oarswoman she, but the coxswain who steers the boat and shouts out the rhythm loud and strong. Popular, she is also custodian of the Wellesley Athletic Association...
...also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...
...Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John Sands has been shot, the play breaks into a wild, inharmonious and exciting rhythm; its draughty madness is terrifying, not by virtue of black paws or of guns offstage but because it conveys somehow the impression that God has gone away, that the world is being run now by the cheerful, sardonic, hideous Furies...
...Liberians are the greatest drummers in the world, according to Dr. Strong. They have an astonishing sense of rhythm, despite their rude culture. Speaking of the means of communication he said that the roads are very poor, and a tremendous length of time is taken in construction. Very frequently the roads are washed out, and the natives keep building in the same poor roadbeds...