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Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...
...riots and such outbreaks as the Battle of Blanton and Bloom to the interpretation of drab statistics assembled by the drudges of Congressional Committees engaged in formulating legislation of significance. "Ten thousand dollars unviolated looks handsome. The Congressional tengrands get badly nicked. The most appalling item is the slice torn off for campaign expenses. Then come the tickets for balls and kindred entertainments. . . . Congressmen are considered easy marks and their names grace many a list of angels, honored by the company of America's leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend...
...Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have for some time been in the throes of a series of adventures as difficult if not quite so herioc as those in which the Rover Boys once acquitted themselves. Bouncing about this time from clouds to shell-torn battlefields, their misfortunes are ridiculous enough to be laughable. Most laughable is a scene, perhaps the most vulgar ever photographed, in which the two are impersonating the front and hind legs of a cow-a cow which is naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry...
...lodging house where they had lived together peacefully for 15 years, entered their room. One of the beds was tipped over, the other broken; a table with smashed legs lay on the floor; there was a streak of blood on the wall and the worn carpet was torn in three places. In the midst of this wreckage lay Richard McNally and his son, cut, bruised, still gripping each other with a terrible anger. Both were dead...
...night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills. The next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses...