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...suggestion was made by one of the many who are anxious to see the sage of the age back at his job that Connie. Mack has kidnapped the famous prophet in an attempt to remove the element of chance from the next World Series. It will be remembered by followers of sport that Dr. Huey's reputation did not really become worldwide until the last World Series, when his remarkably accurate predictions finally won over the most stubborn doubters of his prowess. Investigation brought quick death, however, to the kidnapping story...
With these activities in mind, soothingly counselled the sage Manchester Guardian: "Churchill and his school do not understand the changes that have lately come about in India and Egypt. They think of Kipling's India, but that is as dead as mutton. In its place stands a disorganized, feverish mass of people. . . . determined to manage their own affairs...
...Johnson, scrofulous sage of the 18th Century; BEN Jonson, Elizabethan playwright: JACK Johnson, blackamoor pugilist. *In a floppy felt hat and a pair of khaki trousers, Markswoman Foster turned in a card of 280 out of a possible 300 at 300, 500, 600, 900, and 1,000 yards on a windy day. Runner-up was a ''man in skirts"-Lieut. Alexander Eccles, Seaforth Highlander, with...
Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo, Tex. News-Globe, ambitious son of famed Editor Ed ("Sage of Potato Hill") Howe of the Atchison, Kan. Globe (retired 1927), has made himself widely known as a rambunctious cow-&-oil town journalist...
Another Mickey Mouse fan is Ireland's venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...