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Naturally realtors in "Nanking" or "Southern Capital" sported last week on the crest of a boom which had shot all desirable buildings up to approximately 15 times their former value, with land appraisals up tenfold...
...history of the Harvard-Yale football series is one of the rise and fall of two great waves of victory, interrupted with only an occasional break. For 32 years, from 1876 to 1908, Yale rode the triumphant crest, driving all, Harvard teams before her at will. Only three victories were snatched by Crimson elevens during these years...
...many a M. Jourdain has suffered himself to be so humiliated in order that might taste the excitement of riding over the frosted fields, in the wake of a curving pack, after some red and frightned vixen! Now, this week, all over the J. S., fox-hunting approaches the crest of its season. At Meadow Brook and Radnor, at Warrenton and Millbrook, at Onwentsia and Milwaukee, the riders trot through the dark mists of dawn to gather, as light breaks, at a country gate or a cross roads between fields fenced with wood. Kids on stumpy ponies and millionaires slithering...
...difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload. As I drew out of the dive I saw the glow reflected on the wave crests. I managed to put the machine down on one crest, ran down a hill of water, up the next hill, and just prevented the machine from shooting into the air off the next crest...
...motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person. Willie and Eugene Howard were part of what was funny; the rest...