Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp evening in December, 1888, "The Count" remembers. Into his Pearl Street shop came a rising young barrister for whose pompadour and mustache Manhattan already entertained an admiration that was to grow and grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career...
...Egyptians, as their ancient reliefs attest, valued the brave and loyal, but somewhat obstinate dachshund.* Last week, near Semmering, famed Austrian winter sports centre, Printz, the pet dachshund of Count Bela Széchényi, upheld the tradition of his breed...
...Count (nephew of the Hungarian Minister at Washington who married Gladys Vanderbilt) slipped while climbing, fell from a jutting rock and was instantly killed...
...dead body. There he squatted, howled until a rescue party, guided by the sound, came. Baring his short sharp teeth, growling and snarling, he kept at bay for an hour these men who he supposed had come to harm his dead master. Hastily summoned, the valet of Count Széchényi at last soothed and called off Printz. That night he planted himself on stumpy, determined legs beside his master's bier, had to be leashed and dragged away when the morticians came...
...Scotsman, Elky Clark, and a young Italian, Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion of the world, fought last week in Madison Square Garden. In the first round Clark went down for a count of nine. He recuperated and got through the second. In the third he went down for seven, got up, went down again, got up, went down again. The bell rang. He walked to his corner. After each minute of rest between rounds he came out as if a new day had dawned for him after a good night's sleep. At the end of the fight...