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Sharkey v. Dempsey. Jack Dempsey, in an article in The Ring, rated Stribling and Schmeling ahead of Sharkey. Furious, Sharkey issued a trick challenge to Dempsey for a fight "within six weeks." Said Dempsey: "In reply to 'What Is Wrong With the Fight Game?', it is Jack Sharkey of Boston...
...movies are wrong sometimes. Even the Riviera has its more staid, moral and conservative element. It seems that the younger generation of France had read Rousseau and had taken his teachings to heart. In the cool of the afternoon they were wont to bathe on the Riviera beach clad only as God made them...
...young people become acclimatized to strange and new conditions. The attempts made to ease the way after graduation are keeping pace with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing the young engineers of the conditions that...
...reported, known respectively as "Getting the Basket" and "Putting in the Kitchen." In the first a large round basket is filled with earth and stones. It is then placed on the head of the victim who is made to turn round and round. The basket is occasionally twitched the wrong way, causing broken necks. In the second, the victim is roped round the middle, hauled to the roof rafters of a hut while a fire is lighted beneath him on which handfuls of pepper have been thrown...
...much to say about the future of civilization: "More probably in the future there will be seen fewer attempts to learn it all and more attempts to learn only a part. . . . Society of the future will be one of greater and greater change . . . morality will have no place . . . right & wrong will give way to social expediency. . . . The units of organization will be larger . . . despite the set-back occasioned by the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Democracy will not be so successfully applicable. ... A declining population is altogether a possibility. . . . There has often been discussion of how far the birth rate will fall...