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Revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to promote international amity in 1896, the Olympic Games are separated by four-year periods of bickering, money-grubbing and journalistic squeals of indignation. Current bonfire of ill will, back talk and panhandling began when the Olympic Torch was ceremoniously extinguished at Los Angeles...
In Astoria's brand new municipal pool, the aquatic tryouts turned out to be even more preposterously mismanaged than the track meet across Hell Gate at Randalls Island. Olympic divers, accustomed to having their entrance into the water greeted by large crowds with respectful applause, indignantly discovered that, in...
"And forasmuch as by ancient customs and usages of this realm, as also in regard of divers tenures of sundry manors and lands . . . many of our loving subjects do claim that they are bound to do and perform divers services on said day and at the time of the coronation...
Party lines broke, however, when 30 hours before Hauptmann was scheduled to die on Jan. 17-New Jersey's Court of Pardons, a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court having denied his pleas for clemency or delay- Governor Hoffman granted him a 30...
In the high-flown language of the day, the purpose of the book is set forth in the title pages: that "young gentlemen may read many pleasant fancies and fine devices, and thereon meditate divers sweet conceits to court the love of fair ladies and gentlewomen."