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...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang...
...Alimony Only (Leatrice Joy). Two couples in a criss-cross complication prove that true love under the direction of the heroine will triumph over mercenary ambitions of less exalted members of the cast; prove also how dull such business...
...clear image (keep the ink from smearing) it is necessary to make the plate a mass of tiny points, whose size and proximity determine the value of the tone, the sharpness of the lines. This mass of points is obtained by photographing the copy through a "screen", or criss-cross system of finely ruled lines. The closer together these lines are, the smoother and harder must the paper be that is to receive their result in ink. Thus, pictures in newspapers are made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have...
...Player and team Average per game E. R. Criss, Law 2 13.8 J. F. Sterling, Business 1 10.8 W. B. Hobbs, Law 1 10.6 Benjamin Tannebaum, Law 3 10.2 J. N. Brugler, Business 1 9.5 Floyd Anderson, Law II 8.4 P. M. Aitken, Law 3 8.3 E. B. Graves, Arts and Sciences...