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...black islanders swarmed down to greet Lieut. Wirkus, for Timemenne, their queen, had told them of his great goodness. Later tom-toms tommed. Clarine† flowed down black throats. Ebony girls danced soberly. And upon the unruly yellow hair of the white man was put a tall crown of silk, glass bits, sea shells. The natives called him King Wirkus I and he ruled jointly with Queen Timemenne for eight years...
...afternoon of her U. S. tour Miss Wilkinson will devote, she said, to shopping. Queried newshawks: "What will you buy?" Replied Wee Ellen, defiant, candid: "Silk undies! I hear yours are wonderful...
...Confederate balloon was mounted on a barge in the James River. The barge ran aground and was promptly captured, balloon and all, by the Federals. "With it," wrote General Longstreet, "went the last silk dress of the Confederacy...
...BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...
...thin rain hung its veils over 70,000 people assembled in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year's Day for the supreme intersectional football game of the season - the "Tournament of Roses." Washington State, Pacific Coast champions, had on new red silk jerseys, red pants, red shoes, red helmets. Less flashily arrayed but more dangerously colored by its reputation as the greatest team that ever came from the South, Alabama's Crimson Tide was playing for the last time under supervision of Coach Wallace Wade.* Betters were favoring Alabama principally because the climate of Pasadena...