Word: californianism
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Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills...
...hurdle record was set aside by a Southern Californian, who pounced the distance in 23 2/5 sec., steeplechasing over obstacles in what was formerly fairly good time for a straightaway...
Myths he has fed upon. Upon myths will be continue to feed. So perhaps one need take with no less salt his fear than the calm which preceded it. If the administration is honest this order was issued merely for the purpose of assisting Californian agents in the performance of their "duty". And it is always well to believe that the administration is honest...
...combined football game and babbitts' revel. To drum up publicity, one Hugh K. McKevitt, Illustrious Potentate, ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward pass. Baseball fans recalled that the hard-centred spheroids employed in playing their favorite game have been successfully caught (by catcher Street of the Washington "Senators" and catcher Sullivan of the Chicago White...
...landing of Lief Ericsen on the Atlantic coast, is considered by no means impossible, it has been pointed out. Other possible evidence of the presence of Asiatics on the western coast is the story of a complete Chinese junk, found buried in the gravel of a stream by early Californian settlers...