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Winner of the 1936 title, Oilman Keasey of Corvallis, Ore., was not on the shooting line last week, but a majority of the other ablest U. S. archers had answered the Lancaster Archery Club's blanket invitation which started: "Come bend a bow with us at Lancaster this summer," ended with two lines from Kipling's Philadelphia (Rewards and Fairies...
...jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does it make if it takes you a week or so to get the money instead...
...arrived and gazed her last on Joe Robinson whom she had married 40 years before when she was a backwoods belle and he a 24-year-old lawyer beginning to make good in Lonoke. Behind the casket stood a bank of palms ordered by Bernard Baruch, over it a blanket of orchids, gardenias, gladioli and delphinium, also from Mr. Baruch who had ordered $500 worth of flowers...
...next setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with a plank. The officer whom he asked to arrest them replied: "It will do you good, this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive...
...clad young woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers. By 1910 sand sculptors, with bucket, blanket or hat to receive contributions, had become as much an Atlantic City fixture as its wheelchairs, fortune-tellers and Million-Dollar Pier...