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...Papavert. Joe Zelli is the name of a man who went to France after serving in the Italian Army, stayed in Paris to run a night club and became a byword for junketing college boys. Last autumn he closed up shop on depression-stricken Montmartre, came to Manhattan to run a saloon for Racketeer Owney Madden. Mr. Papavert is the translated version of a play which Mr. Zelli presented in Paris. It was originally of Teutonic extraction...
Forrest's name became a byword in the West. When with 500 men he captured 1,700 Federals, ecstatic Southerners dubbed him the Wizard of the Saddle. Sherman vowed he would get him "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury. There will never be peace in Tennessee until Forrest is dead!" But when his was the last organized Confederate force in the West, when news came of Lee's and Johnston's surrenders, Forrest knew the game was up. His men crowded round him, begged him to lead them to Mexico to avoid surrendering. He was tempted...
...State of Nevada was hard pressed last week to maintain its monopoly of the U. S. divorce market. Other States, covetous of the profits to be made out of divorce-hunting visitors, began liberalizing their divorce statutes to match the 90-day Nevada provision which made Reno a national byword...
...Tavern. The year 1922 will be remembered by many for the long skirts of its debutantes and the catch-phrase of its coxcombs: "What's all the shooting for?" Last week, a season after the reappearance of long skirts, the source of the byword recurred?a revival of Actor-Producer George Michael Cohan's The Tavern...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...