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...prices and small sales is over. Last week farmers with many eggs to sell at high prices were disappointed; egg speculators who had sold short were pleased. After an unexpected duration of high prices, the Manhattan egg market broke 6? to 41¢ for extra fresh eggs in a sudden noon raid, and in St. Louis 4¢ was slashed off prices...
...keepers unlocked the door of Robber Spiers' cell. Still cringing he took a few steps between his guards, then with a sudden scream of terror, sprang away, vaulted over the pipe railing of the cell gallery, and plunged down three stories to crash, a sodden neck-broken corpse at the very feet of the assembled Justices of the Peace...
...skirt of pinewoods and the scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes on the white curve of the mountain pointed the racers to sudden curves around tree-stumps, past rocks, through the beds of hidden brooks. Slalomer Joseph Whyte of New Hampshire was too good for young Bryce Grayson-Bell of McGill, and the best Sander of Dartmouth could do was third. Pederson won the straight one-mile ski race for New Hampshire...
...Joyce's publishers gave her a tea in Manhattan, caviarish. terpsichorean. She flashed her teeth, her jewels; two days later went to Harbor Sanitarium to have out her appendix. Though cancellation of her passage to France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby...
...with his various forward line combinations, while the Boston team was handicapped by its lack of coordinated practice. The approaching tilts with the Yale sextet must still be regarded in the light of a rather mediocre record, despite the fact that many Crimson ice followers had hoped for a sudden reversal of form with the return of Giddens to the University lineup...