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...connivance of the exhibitionist Uncle Cocoa, the Comet's reporters wrote his and his wife's "own stories" of their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts to keep them on the front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named "Bum" Cadman was built up into a king of outlaws. So, too, were girls in the street paid by photographers to sob publicly at the funeral of Cinema-sheik Adolphe Valerino. (Few days before, Editor Peters had sold out an entire edition by the ingenious banner-line: VALERINO DEAD-followed...
Three other championships were decided before Wimbledon Week (which | lasts a fortnight) was over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott...
...absurdum" to the limit, we are at a loss to understand what it is.... Just what degree will be awarded at the conclusion of this work in higher education is not as yet suggested but very likely it will be something imposing like "B. B. R." meaning "Bachelor of Bum Rehabilitation...
Hastily Engineer Carroll ripped up the boards, descended, brought Bum, a skeletal dog, unable to stand alone, to the surface...
...local veterinary would believe that a dog could have fasted for 14 weeks. Some thought Bum must have lived by rat-catching; some cried: "Impossible...