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...young puncher from Texas named Wildcat Jenkins. Last week, sauntering along Little Rock's main street, whom should he see but the Wildcat. "H'ya Wildcat old boy," drawled Les. "Haven't seen you in years. What you doing these days?" Said Boxer Jenkins, freckled and angular as ever: "Still fighting-or haven't you heard? They call me Lew now. I'm lightweight champion of the world...
While museum visitors watched, Charley Turquoise and his helper squatted in the sand, crosslegged, smoothed it carefully with a long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting...
...fond of a guide Scotch burr, gang doon tae the Fine Arts and see the new Harry Lauder picture. It's full of highland accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping...
...twelve years now the angular legs of Pi Eta have swung for Director Paul Anderson. Physiques and faces may change, but the show goes on and this year's promises to rank with his best...
When Wendell Willkie talked with President Roosevelt before going to Britain, the President gave him a letter to Winston Churchill. It was written in the angular Presidential scraggle, and addressed "to a certain naval person." In the exciting early days of the first Roosevelt Administration, Washington grew accustomed to such notes, sometimes a brief message of encouragement to some struggler in a new bureau, sometimes a hasty scrawl of thanks for work well done. But never had President Roosevelt surpassed the aptness of the note of introduction that Wendell Willkie carried to Winston Churchill. Nor was one of his messages...