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...inside and made him stumble. The jockey fell off, got on again, and rode after the other horse which, staggering and covered with mud and sweat, Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1 shot, crossed under the wire a winner. Billy Barton, the horse that had stumbled, with Tom Cullinan up, was second at 33 to 1. There was no third. "Where did that fine horse stumble?" said the King of Afghanistan to the Countess Dejumilhac. "My God, I don't know," said the Countess Dejumilhac, "I was saying the Lord's Prayer with my back to the track...
...dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously...
...Sure 'tis a foine drama we be afther seein." Such is the effect of Ralph Cullinan's comedy, "Loggerheads," playing at the Hollis Street Theatre. However little Irish blood you have in your veins you will talk with a rich brogue for several hours after listening to this Hibernian play...
...Cullinan, W. H., Gannett...
...report of the managers of the crew and nine were next heard. Manager Cullinan of the crew announced that he had unpaid bills to the amount of $584, and earnestly requested the class to come to his assistance. He said that with one exception the '93 crew had been the most economically managed one that has ever left Harvard. The reason that he gave for the deficit was that many members of the class had left their subscriptions unpaid and that he had had considerable trouble with boats and oars...