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Today one may buy a domestic set (two racquets, a bird and a net) for as little as $1.45; or one may pay $45 for an elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with...
...Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed $500 from Sigmund Freud to go to Warsaw and covered the Pilsudski revolution in evening dress. She was almost shot in Bulgaria. In Vienna she established a salon of sorts and entertained...
That rumor last week led a reporter to seek out Janizary Corcoran. Found in Washington's Powhatan Hotel restaurant devouring a filet mignon, Tommy the Cork said he had not seen Mayor LaGuardia in six months. "Must be somebody else," said he between bites. "I hear there's another Tom Corcoran...
Irishmen hailed the bounding green silks of Tim Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then...
...said, "Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws,"* had never heard of the U. S. Supreme Court. Tommy-the-Cork Corcoran and his boss, the President, love ballads, but believe that the laws they have got on the statute books are better and should be preserved to posterity by a high court minded like the New Deal's lawmakers...