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...been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi, Backbone, Swope, Dangerous, you would have to put up more money to win less. Various opinions Upon this state of affairs were expressed in U. S. currency or friendly promises...
LOVE FOR LOVE-Congreve and the Restoration pulled out of literary hiding and embodied in a swift and stimulating entertainment...
...come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York throws its arms wide and hails it as the success of the season. Which all goes to prove oh, not very much...
...crew set busily to work, preparing the cases for delivery over the ship's sides. Occasionally, a mate would gaze expectantly over the waters, looking for the swift little rum runner which would surely come. Hours passed. Then, suddenly, four small motor craft raced into sight, came up to the Pellegrini, but not alongside. They circled around and around-picket boats of the U. S. Coast Guard...
While the Elis have been victorious only twice in seven games, their apparently bad record, while favorable to the University, must not be regarded as pointing to a swift and certain Crimson victory today, for the Yale schedule has been much harder than that of the University team, for it included games with Annapolis, Maryland and Hobart. Yale scored twice on Syracuse, but was defeated 4 to 2, while the University in its contest with the New York team came out on the short end of a 3 to 1 score...