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...result of the toss for courses in the five races of the regatta held yesterday at the Yale quarters, Captain Ladd called the turn on the coin five times straight against Captain Pelley of Yale. In addition to getting the choice for the combination and "gentlemen's" races yesterday afternoon, the Harvard captain got the pick of positions for the University, Junior, and Freshman races. The crews will line up as follows in the races today: East West Course Course Freshman at 9.45 Yale Harvard Seconds at 10.15 Yale Harvard University at 6 Harvard Yale...
...Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened−in whiskey−to the time when he tossed a coin−" Heads I marry her, tails I don't." Abundance of Irish peasantry, family feuds, feasts, fights, fires...
These words are not final; with this new freedom at hand everyone has the opportunity to invent better ones for himself. Lewis Carroll's word "chortle" has already fought its way to a place in the dictionary, why not "churkle" or anything else? Instead of "rolling your own", "coin your own". Then, we shall be saved, temporarily at least, from the level of the six hundred word vocabulary of O. Henry's shop-girls, to which at the present rate we are fast descending...
...impossible to wholly disregard the course of events. Styles for men are actually being changed and set by the International Association of Clothing Designers; and the changes are receiving almost as much attention as "Paris Decries More Ribbons this Spring" and "Five Young Men Held as Coin Box Looters". It is no longer a mere question of vanity or indifference; latest fashions for men are rising to reality independent of Hart Schaffner and Marx advertisements...
...delinquent in doing its share in the reform the I. R. T. has undertaken to abolish the insignificant loss of less than $3,000 which it sustains every month by installing slug detectors on its slot turnstiles. These hold each coin under a magnifying glass until the next is inserted; and thus one inspector can guard all the stiles at one station...