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...reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work. A third ascertained that he did not like angling, swimming, riding, golf...
Less than three months after he had taken the case under advisement, Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cheyenne, Wyo., rendered a decision. The case was the suit of the U. S. to cancel the lease of Naval Oil reserve No. 3 (known as Teapot Dome) to Harry F. Sinclair's oil interests. The decision was that the lease should stand...
...Then after four glorious years, came Commencement Day, and, dressed in my brother's blue serge suit, I heard my name read with the class of 19--. It had been a close race, but I had won. I did not owe a penny and I had a few cents in my pocket...
...midnight, in the middle of a baseball lot on the outskirts of Manhattan, stood a squat man in a blue suit. He lifted up his face toward the dark cave of a stadium risen out of a cigaret smoke, peopled with 40,000 ghouls. Enormous lights concentrated their white, sterile fire upon his stubby head. On each side of him, in the opposite corners of a roped square, sat a boxer. On his right was a young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair...
...rocking, pulling away. His right hand, broken long ago, was little use to him. At the end of the bout, it was the young German whose legs sagged, the old Irishman who seemed fresh; and, though he knew, as he sat staring at the squat announcer in the blue suit, that he haa been bested, he knew also that he had been the cleverer of the two, that he had put up a gallant defense. He did not think that they would take his title away on so slight a margin. Neither did the 40,000 smoke-veiled phantoms. That...