Word: comets
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...arranged to buy Ford Motor Co. for $8,000,000 but his bankers were afraid. He is a stanch Presbyterian, stanch Republican. He shuns jewelry but is famed for his tremendous long-distance telephone bills. Wherever he goes he carries a set of checkers. Said the Paris Comet of him last year: "He has served both God and Mammon without ever being able to distinguish which was which...
...second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic and weak at the start, he suddenly worked up a pace that made watchers think of an other Californian of tremendous memory, Maurice McLoughlin, the Comet. He finished volleying duels by acing grim-faced Hunter and driving forehands past him. Hunter said he could never tell where Vines' drives were going. Score for Vines...
...proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times the size of Tintoretto's "Paradise" walls in the Palace of the Doges.* Pale monumental figures float upon it among brilliant clouds and stars. while a vivid comet's tail streaks across from projection box to screen. Artist Kent, assisted by Jo Mielziner and ten others, worked five months on the canvas...
...Comet Wu has of course captured Peking (TIME, May 3, 1926)- indeed one is hardly a real "War Lord" in China until one has captured Peking, preferably several times. Absolutely nothing was known last week of the strength or nature of the forces with which Comet Wu suddenly appeared on the Yangtsze River in central China. As usual the "Scholar War Lord" heralded his approach with an exquisitely worded manifesto in purest classic script which his mysterious agents distributed to diplomatic representatives of the Great Powers in China...
Such is the grand, authentic manner, such are the classic words "reluctance," "strength" and "peace" with which a proper Chinese Comet always and inevitably returns...