Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billiard "champion of champions," opens his autobiography,* proceeds to tell how he learned to play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title, but was defeated in turn after a few months. Except...
...here under COMMONWEALTH heading; and while I am personally a supporter and admirer of the leader of the other great political party, the Rt Hon. Arthur Meighen, I would be glad to receive a press proof of the cut of MacKenzie King- following the example of the Fritz Kreisler "fan" from East Pittsburgh...
...quite a Kreisler fan, as you no doubt have already surmised, and I would appreciate it very much if you would favor me with a good press proof of this cut or any other sort of a reproduction that I may mount and frame...
Thus opens the newest chapter in the tempestuous life of Fan S. Noli '12, Albanian Harvard graduate, bishop-ex-Premier. When last heard of, Noli was disappearing into Italy, taking with him a loyal coterie of cabinet officers and followers, and "a lot of money". Now he turns up in the capital of Austria, having discarded the role of politician for that of author. What matter if the door of his native country is barred to him? For Fan Noli it means but an opportunity to continue his literary work, interrupted by the demands of his unstable position as head...
...Ahmed Zogu reports "all quiet along the Adriatic", but Fan Noli talks darkly of suppression, of Serbian intervention, of a Russian army, and of a threatened partition of Albania by Italy and Jugo-Slavia. And during the period of his exile he sits in his little attic in Vienna and writes and writes and writes...