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...fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver in 1898. A year later Tabor died, after advising his wife never to let go his last silver mine...
...Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches...
...Chicago, huge Primo Camera stalked warily about the ring, actually retreating from but trying to make it look as Krakow though he were ("Kingfish" advancing Levinsky), against 197-lb. Harry fish-peddler, who looked like a pigmy in the ring with his 6-ft. yin. 270-lb. opponent. In the first round, an upward right-hand sweep from Kingfish Levinsky landed on the side of the pendulous Camera jaw, caused the monstrous Camera knees to buckle. Thereafter, wary and furious by turns, using all his weight, reach and slight knowledge of tactics, Carnera managed to maul, push, lambaste Levinsky enough...
Under the dim lights of the New Lecture Hall this evening there will be a pageant of the nations, not that gala event which blesses the sawdust ring, but the more serious conception of international pageantry produced under the direction of Phillips Brooks House. The Harvard Model League, of all the 20,000 in the country, is said to be the best, but even so, one wonders. Just like the real league in Geneva, they say, so splendid to arouse interest in international affairs, and at the same time it teaches how the diplomatic machinery works. Of course, there...
...marriage by designating the proposed alliance as "suitable" or, by implication, the reverse, and correspondingly to have one's engagement and subsequently one's marriage chronicled in a box on the front page of Saturday's "Transcript" is almost as much of a necessity in Boston as a ring and clergyman. Not to be so noticed is a contingency fraught with horror to the youth and chivalry of the community, and Mr. Alexander always exercised his high calling with discretion and magnanimity. What now may happen with some new arbiter in the office at the head of the stairs...