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Comely Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, wife of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., secretary of the Democratic National Committee, once kicked a portrait of herself full in the face, once threw a monster birthday party for her horse. In Washington last week Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus made a deal with her: if Mrs. Robert appeared in one regular performance, the circus would give a benefit show for sick children. Game, Evie Robert dressed up as an Indian princess, timidly mounted, confidently squatted on the head of a much-enduring pachyderm...
Lyford, who had spilt acid on a pair of chemistry work pants, rebelled in his own way and threw the pants on the shower floor with the water turned on full. Summoned away from his impromptu washtub by some errand. he was absent for about a quarter of an hour and returned to find langorous waves breaking slowly over the far edge...
...brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy Ryan, world's welterweight champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy to distinguish him from spurious Kid McCoys . . . night life in Paris...
Campaign. The Germans consolidated inside a wavering defense ring which the rallying Norwegians now threw around Oslo. Newly arrived Germans easily broke through this ring and, while earlier arrivals moved north and west, started methodically subjugating Norway's southeast cor ner. If the Allied sea blockade should prove effective, they might have to breach Swedish neutrality and bring up reinforce ments by rail from Malmö or Hälsingborg...
...there is an exhibit of Japanese Buddhist art which covers three major periods in the development of the art of that country. The paintings and statues are particularly interesting because it was during the Fujiwara and Kamakura periods, both of which are represented in the exhibit, that Japan gradually threw off the yoke of Chinese influence in the arts, and began to establish an indigenous culture...