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Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
...innkeeper bustled up and filled a glass. The bridegroom offered him a cheap cigar. With commendable presence of mind, the King lit it. The wedding party whispered and grinned inanely. The King's aide hovered in the background...
Washington hostess will fill her house when she asks her friends to meet Admiral and Mrs. Bristol. The financier will forego the last golf of summer to talk out a cigar with the Admiral, privately. The heads of great churches will solicit conferences. And each of Admiral Bristol's public utterances in this country will be cabled to every chancellor of Europe...
...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
...stout golfers stood forth to do battle in the finals : stubby William Serrick of Manhattan, who uses a jigger for his long putts; Raymond McAuliffe-tall, redheaded, lately a caddy on the links at Buffalo, who stares fiercely at his little ball between puffs of a long black cigar...