Word: drollness
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Seabright. Out of the Seabright Bowl in New Jersey, annual invitation event, popped several surprises. Nathaniel Niles of Boston upset Clarence Griffin of California and Dean Mathey of Manhattan, both "seeded" in the draw. Lucien E. Williams, droll Chicagoan, overthrew Fritz Mercur of Philadelphia, Longwood Bowl winner; Willard Crocker, Canadian Davis Cup captain; Harvey Snodgrass, of California, No. 9 in national ranking. Howard Kinsey took the finals from his fellow Californian, jaunty, courageous, diminutive William M. Johnston, No. 2 in national ranking, onetime National and World's Champion. (Johnston was not "through." He had yielded up his tonsils five...
Premier Poincaré, who is also Foreign Minister, sent police to view the offending scene, which was later suppressed to the great comfort of the British Ambassador but to the equally great discomfort of the Parisians who had found the scene extremely droll...
...sensitive British Ambassador who requires the suppression of a droll scene on the Paris stage...
Sued for separation. Courtland H. Young, 48, publisher of Young's Magazine, Breezy Stories, The Yellow Book, Droll Stories, by Mrs. Dorothy Rosabelle Young, 21. She charged cruelty and habitual intoxication...
...with a "lady of the ensemble" to an H. G. Wells tale of a machine in which one sees what has happened in the past by delaying the journey of light rays. Murder, royal jewels, ghosts, all find their place in the volume; some of the stories are exceedingly droll, one is gripping, several are mediocre and one or two are asinine. On the whole, however, the stories are braced up by the ingenious manner in which the reader becomes interested in the teller of the stories--Gibson himself--rather than in the stories, and it is really to follow...