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...during their married life but brought into their happy home an elephant to which he devoted his entire time and attention. . . . He threatened to break your complainant up and destroy her forever. . . . A. BERKOWITZ Solicitor for the complainant." Though the Chancery Court clerk accepted the petition. Judge William Walker threw it out, saying: "While witty, it is beneath the dignity of this court...
When "The Pride of San Joaquin," onetime (1928) world champion, was brought forward, he was conceded not a chance. His jumps last year were feeble. Everyone agreed that he was through but watched closely as he took a deep breath, drew his muscles taut and with a splendid lunge, threw his old body 12 ft. 10½ in., landing like a hunk of dough. The crowd was wild. "The Pride" had come back...
...make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting blocks, Simpson threw away his blocks and went out to practice. He said that in the 100-vard dash at the Western Conference Meet he was going to beat Tolan's world record with Tolan running behind...
...Kokomo, Ind., Mrs. V. S. Wiley found a dime copy of her $150 diamond ring in a dime store, took hers off to verify the similitude, found it so close, that unwittingly she threw her own ring into the bauble tray. It lay there four days, scorned by 5-&-10 shoppers...
...Manhattan, small boys threw sticks at Paul Goldstein and Murray Liebowitz who were rowing on a lake in Central Park. Annoyed, Murray Liebowitz and Paul Goldstein went ashore, chased the small boys, found that their sticks were dynamite, of which they had stolen a large...