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...even. That was remarkable after the complete break-up of the business. This year profits, although not of the pre-Prohibition magnitude, are high. In ten years August A. Busch expects them to be Kolossal. He then will sail to his castle on the Rhine, to hunt the wild boar in peace of soul...
Brown's runs came in the first and in the seventh. After one had been retired in the opening frame, Booth threw wildly in fielding Edes' lunt the Boar right fielder, taking second. A balk advanced him to the far corner, and Ruchstall's hit through short stop sent him over. The other Brown run came in the seventh when Guerney caught one of Booth's fast balls and sent it deep into center field. Burns hooted the ball before picking it up, and the runner made the circuit on the combined hit and messy fielding...
...British Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, maintained complete silence last week at his retreat, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. An irrepressible Mid-West headline writer once placed above a story concerned with Laureate Bridges-then in this country-the single devastating row of caps...
...poet of Dauber, Reynard the Fox, etc., does not, one hopes, take his novel writing as anything but an exuberant indulgence with, one also hopes, some lucrative return. There is nothing in this or in his first prose extravaganza, Sard Harker, to show that the Sage of Boar's Hill knows anything about novels except to start a tale and then spin away for all he is worth, and the devil take the hindermost reader. His new title stands for One Damn Thing After Another...
...Iron Chancellor" was summoned, early one morning in his roistering student days, to give an account of his misdeeds to the Rector of his college. Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille. Becoming annoyed during the conversation which ensued, he picked up the Rector's inkstand, flung it at his head, missed, and strode from the office with the boar hound at heel...