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...sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning the 48 tricks & dodges of Japanese wrestling, or Sumo.* In a 12-ft. ring a Japanese wrestler grunts through a brief career of trying to squash his opponent into submission. If he becomes a yokozuna (champion) he may tie a piece of straw rope around his waist and consort with the highest personages, but even for the yokozuna pay is small, consisting mostly...
...York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years...
...thief, Benjamin Barris, pleaded guilty on December 21 to grand larcency, covering five indictments. His arrest followed that of H. B. Clarke in Lancaster, Pa., another member of the ring. The latter gave information which led to the arrest of C. J. Romm, another New York bookseller, now in prison...
...past, confident of the future. The beginnings of decline which were evident even then, were ignored by both citizens and government. Those were the great days of William Hale Thompson, Chicago's illustrious mayor. Swept into office on the highly pertinent policy of "America First," he offered a three-ring circus rather than a government. Mr. Capone and his boys had their notoriety, but the spotlight was the mayor's whenever he wanted it. His character interpreted the momentary character of the city, and if the finances went to pieces in the meantime, he was still a sufficient symbol. When...
...none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...