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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind them came the Pope Who Left the Vatican, Pius XI. He was riding?a minute figure almost immersed in a white mantle. Bareheaded because of the heat, he gazed fixedly at the Host. Around him strode a jeweled assemblage. Above him waved a velvet canopy of scarlet and gold which dispersed thick spirals of incense rising from argent censers. Behind him swayed two giant ostrich fans. As the podium was borne through the colonnade, the mass of heads turned, the air quivered with the clangor of bells, the shouts were hoarse and deafening: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa...
...buzzards that soar over St. Louis, Mo., were perplexed last week. No idle fliers themselves, they were obliged to alight now and then, to eat, to drink, to sleep, or just to consider with angry red eyes the creature, much bigger than a buzzard, which droned around in circles through the sky all through one week, all through the next week, on into another week, without ever coming down. Now and then another big creature would roar up from the ground and hover solicitously over the soaring one, evidently feeding it or something through a long hose. Other creatures would...
Alain Gerbault, French sportsman, arrived on his 30-foot sloop Firecrest in Le Havre amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When...
...Charles Scribner Jr., wife of the Manhattan publisher, summering in Massachusetts, riding her Irish hunter, saw a farm horse, stung by a bee, go dashing away dragging a hay rake. Mrs. Scribner gave chase, followed the runaway up hill and down dale, around curves so sharp that one of them sent the hay rake zooming off by itself. Agile, she caught and subdued the horse...
...final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding off, keeping in position. While the Midwests bunched on the ball, Old Aiken deployed and rode around them until the score...