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...match at Cannes?a match which has been given as much publicity as the conference of Locarno?had just ended. Miss Wills led, 3-0. Mile. Lenglen had won the first set, 6-3. Both had been, at the beginning, too nervous to play well and too wary to divert with any spectacular activities the people who since eight in the morning had poured into Cannes along the highroad from Nice and Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks, she had won her advantage from her opponent...
...greying hair. Onetime, 1907-08, he was intimately connected with government prosecution for using the mails to defraud against "The Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers...
...America were met at Winter Park, 140 miles from St. Petersburg, by the St. Petersburg Chambermen of Commerce, with several squads of motorcycle policemen and 54 enormous motor busses, which shimmered in the station-yard like a caravan of painted elephants. Handshaking, backslapping, ensued. The bankers dispersed to divert themselves before settling down to the serious sessions of boosting, debate, criticism which would begin next...
George Whitney (J. P. Morgan & Co.) advised the public to divert the flow of the country's exportable capital from foreign bonds to domestic investments that yield dividends. "Why," he asked, "should the American investor hold...
Morals. From Germany the Actors' Theatre has drawn a creaky old satire of reformers and produced it with a fine cast in the high hope that it will divert a metropolitan public already much diverted by public moralists. The play employs the not unfamiliar device of staining the moralist with the very ink which he was bent on blotting from the city...