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...Jones's winning total of 287 was one stroke worse than the U. S. Open record made by Chick Evans in 1916 at Minikahda...
...stock market. Others who were forced to sell most of their automobiles last February would find bull-baiting more appropriate. Be that as it may. Surely it is neither kind nor dignified to ridicule an occupation chosen seriously and fraught with all the ardent idealism of youth. The chick that will emerge from the academic egg this June does not deserve a harsh rebuff. What if a few pieces of shell do grace its diminutive tail feathers! Think of the Big Bear and the Medium-sized Bear and all the little Bears that amble so quaintly through the nursery days...
...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
...comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed...
...Manhattan, one Chick Gum, Chinese cafeteria cook, was tossing flapjacks in the hurry of early trade one morning last week. Of one jack he lost control. Flapping high, it curved down into the open neck of the Gum undershirt. Chick Gum yowled, got a doctor...