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...things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded as a great American novelist, especially for Senator North (1900), The Conqueror (1902), Perch of the Devil...
...course. She was 37 to the turn! At that, the American got 38 and was only 1 down when the gruelling told and she began to cut drives, to foozle putts. Miss Wethered finished off 4 up and 3 to play, and spent the afternoon trouncing her 1923 conqueror, Doris Chambers. To her father, who concerns himself deeply in her success, Miss Collett cabled (truthfully) : "Joyce played unbeatable golf." Of Miss Wethered's play up to the finals, able critics said : "Incredible . . . like Vardon [British open champion...
...such a case, an even more tragic fate awaits the conqueror, in the revenge of American transportation companies. Instead of returning from his summer trip abroad intellectually stimulated, by the best of British thought, the traveller from Cincinnati will return in September restless and dissatisfied, writhing in the consciousness that although he sedulously dodged Niagara Falls and the Yellowstone, he has nevertheless done nothing in spite of all desperate efforts, but See America First...
...throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered Incas for their gold at Cuzco and thought himself a very great Emperor indeed. "Ha!" say the monks, and look as if they would spit upon those miserable...
...ball crashed into the "tell-tale," or metal strip across the bottom of the front wall. For an hour or so the two men and the little white ball flashed hither and thither in the little red room. Then they desisted-and William Rand Jr. of Manhattan, congratulated his conqueror, R. Earl Fink of Brooklyn, upon winning the final match of the national fall amateur scratch squash tennis tournament. Outpaced at first, Fink had summoned whirlwind speed to break through Rand's flawless technique. Score...