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...orchestras invited to leave included Billy Arnold's, Kel Keech's, Bill Henley's, the International Five (Negro), the Cracker jacks (Negro), King's (Negro). The procedure, according to reports, "is the usual one followed in cases of undesirables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France,: In France | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...collection of 21 short stories, six completed, the other 15 left unfinished at the death of their author. The stories are all brief?five, six, eight pages; the longest one, The Doves'Nest (unfinished) runs as many as 15. They have no trimly tailored tightness of plot?cannon cracker climaxes?in fact it is doubtful whether any of our best paying and most financially successful American magazines would consider them worth the buying. And yet they add, if anything, to a reputation that already belongs among the permanent things of English literature?a reputation sustained entirely by exactly such work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doves' Nest-- Katherine Mansfield Explains Us to Ourselves | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jack Johnson vs. Firpo | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...actroties". It is generally admitted that the island has settled down to a prosperity unknown before American occupation. In others of the small "banana" republics, as O. Henry loved to describe, the more proscuce of a cool, giver American destroyer slipping into the harbor has completely discussed inciptent fire cracker revolutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATROLLING THE BEAT | 5/24/1922 | See Source »

...cuaght the forward pass that last Saturday got Harvard her second touchdown and tied the score? The answer, according to a number of papers is Cracker, but later evidence indisputably proves that Macomber was on the recieving end of the toss. This question has been asked repeatedly since the game; the resulting general misunderstanding has direct bearing on the question as to wheter Harvard players shall or shall not be numbered. Would not any mistake of this kind have been avoided if they even had worn numbers as did the Princeton players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAIN:- WHO'S WHO? | 11/8/1920 | See Source »

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