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...indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used to falling cabinets, I accepted as natural the fact that Chancellor (Premier) Rudolf Ramek had at last been forced to the wall by the many disgruntled office holders whom he has dismissed as a matter of national economy. The entire civil service-the most rapaciously organized bureaucracy in Europe-had virtually threatened to strike if their combined salaries were not raised by the staggering total of 3,081,000,000 kronen...
...photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between...
...rewards were shooting the rapids of Ratisbon, lunching and gunning with Admiral Horthy at Budapest, tasting the fresh-distilled slivowitz (plum brandy) of Croatian and Magyar peasants waltzing in raw Bulgaria, watching out for the merry brigands of swampy Rumania. Though his name sounds like the handwriting oh the wall, Traveler Farson is a cheery, seaworthy person and a first-rate reporter. He saw a great deal that was significent as well as colorful and tells it very well...
Receiving the ball shortly after the opening whistle, the Freshmen marched steadily down the gridiron, breaking through the schoolboy forward wall, and gaining heavily on an occasional aerial thrust. Hitch finally broke from the scrimmage line and dashed forty yards for a touchdown. The try for point failed, and the scoring was ended for the first half...
Worcester fumbled often, and this loose handling of the ball nullified any attack. The schoolboy backs were unable to pierce the stone-wall defense presented by the Freshman forward wall, and were forced to resort to kicking. Good punting was instrumental in holding down the score...