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...play-ers-graphic, clear and undistinguished drawings, very creditable for a tennis player. And in Boston a crowd stimulated a hockey game between the Bruins and the St. Patrick's team by throwing onto the ice 76 American pennies, one Canadian penny, one broken bottle, 65 cigar and cigaret butts, countless programs, and the yolks, the whites and the shells of four eggs...
...White Sox had paid some money to Detroit, but that was "as a reward for beating Boston. . . ." Donie Bush shook a fist in Risberg's face. Eddie Collins, with a catch in his voice, said the story was "all a damned lie. . . ." Risberg smiled. The players dropped cigaret butts on the carpet. Commissioner Landis withdrew to consider his decision...
...French statesmen vanquish their weight by their vivacity. When Foreign Minister Briand of France lights his inevitable cigaret, chats with it bobbing between his lips and winks now and then a twinkling eye, then his fat is forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy...
...North Carolina has risen into a mountain of industrial pride, where cotton is transformed into sheets and pillowcases, where tobacco is fed into billions of cigaret papers, where skyscrapers in Winston-Salem and Greensboro grow fast. Virginia retains much of its old aristocracy. Industry progresses along with female academies. South Carolina seems to have become the "valley." Charleston, which many times defied the nation, is now content with a less vigorous aristocracy. But the real change in South Carolina has come back of the tidewater where famed Ben Tillman led a revolt of the agrarians and the "poor whites...
...with the Emperor of Austria; won a running-deer shoot from Grand Duke Michael of Russia for $350. At an exhibition in England, five ruling monarchs were present. A man who was to rule as Wilhelm II of Germany, expressed a desire to have the ash removed from his cigaret by a bullet. Annie Oakley obliged. Queen Victoria sent her a signed photograph. Prince Edward (VII) of Wales presented her on the grounds of the London Gun Club, where she was the first woman ever allowed to shoot, and gave her a medal inscribed: "You are the greatest shot...