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...Horses. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor are fairly entertainingly occupied in a marine adventure in which a typhoon is prominently concerned. He is a sea captain and she the wife of an Englishman who once might have been described...
...face was weary drawn. Lenglen evened the score again, Wills took the odd game?and then occurred that curiously dramatic incident which gave all the U. S. sporting sheets an opportunity to say that Miss Wills had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur golf-champion?told her to come...
...laugh of ours. Ever since childhood, we have heard British humor widely ridiculed in America, and ever since childhood we have gone into weak giggles over it. Either we violently disagree with our compatriots, or Americans have been kidding themselves all along as to the true nature of an Englishman's humor...
...other day in a paper that when the word 'rubber' was mentioned, an Englishman's expression was like that of the cat caught by the empty cream jug or the empty canary cage. You will understand that the word 'rubber' does not produce that particular kind of satisfaction in my soul." He told of the ups and downs of rubber planting; told of hard times immediately following the War when "it was literally a case with many plantations of 'To be or not to be-aye, there's the rubber!'" He concluded...
...Cushing and the elder Edward Osler were old friends and had studied together in Baltimore. In 1917 Dr. Cushing went overseas as head of the Harvard Medical Unit and was present at the death of the young Englishman whose father he had known. When it was heard that Osler had been fatally wounded in the latter days of the War, Dr. Cushing was sent for, and attended him until he died...