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From New York Europe withdrew a total of $35,000,000 in gold during the week. Almost the only place where the measure failed to stir popular excitement and financial fears was in the U. S. itself...
...winnings-$219,000-were a world's record for two-year-olds. Top Flight was a favorite for this week's Kentucky Derby until last week when, in her first race of the season, the Wood Memorial at Jamaica, she finished fourth. Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney withdrew Top Flight from the list of Derby entrants...
...time he reached the quarter finals, Lo Wenching was the favorite to win the championship. Then he was beaten by one of the smallest players in the tournament, Abraham Krakauer of New York University. Krakauer, an unseeded player whose entry had been accepted only when someone else withdrew, played Coleman Clark of Chicago in the final...
...sample story is "Dayspring Mishandled." of how Manallace, "a darkish, slow northerner" meted out justice to an affected and bellied person called Alured Castorley. They had worked together at a Fictional Supply Syndicate until Castorley inherited some money and withdrew from hack work to follow "Literature." Chaucer was his prey; soon all the world recognized Castorley as a Chaucerian authority. Manallace remained a hack. During the War they were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author...
...added a codicil to his will (dated 1925) eliminating from it Cornell, M. I. T. and the Rochester Y. W. C. A. Last week lawyers pointed out that these institutions had been provided for since the will was drawn. The attorneys for Cornell and the Y. W. C. A. withdrew their objections. M. I. T. had made none (as "Mr. Smith," Mr. Eastman had given...