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...Cantonese Chang puffed his vast and sudden conquests last week to extravagant and imaginary proportions in a communiqu...
...history is the history of professional football from its beginnings on various sandlots long ago to its sudden rise to eminence behind the weaving hips of Harold ("Red") Grange. Men took money for playing football before there were any "professionals." There were no professionals because there were no amateurs. One does not speak of a professional plumber. One does not point out as exceptional a boilermaker who accepts money for his labors. And the first professional football players were plumbers, boilermakers, who received wages simultaneously for their plumbing, their boiler-making, and their playing. Factories had their teams, mill towns...
...sudden failure of the electric plant all lights went out at about 9 p. m. While many a tourist, not frightened by gun fire, shrieked with alarm at the innocuous darkness, Arab servants rushed about, knocking over tables, chairs, in a wild scramble for candles. Once light was restored, the panic guttered. Said one Harry Patterson Hale of Boston, tourist, to newsgatherers who boarded the California: "It was well worth the risk in going to Damascus, for the city was the most interesting* one that we visited on the cruise...
...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...Rich. Desire in the shipping room goads a clerk to seek dubious paths to sudden wealth. He forces his way into Long Island society, only to learn that the straight and narrow path is, after all, the best. The little wife will have to wait for her Rolls Royce. The show is a sort of vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even...