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...cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather. ... He went conspicuous, all gold and glitter, in the front of great battles and in a hundred little cavalry fights which killed men just as dead as Gettysburg...
...medical joke: A man convalescing from a severe nose operation cried out to his nurse that he had to sneeze. "Go right ahead,'' said she, ''that shows you are getting better. It will be a great feather in my cap. "Very well," said the patient. "You just stand out of the way and I'll make?Kerchooo!?an Indian Chief...
Last week Arthur Upham Pope, director of the Exhibition, returned to London from Persia in high feather, announced results of his foray. Concurrently was released news of the nature, extent and magnitude of the greatest Persian art exhibition ever held...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...
...home of Separatist Knobloch (who had served as a judge during the French occupation) the crowd broke down the door, threw furniture out of the window, made a snowstorm of the feather-beds, set fire to his shop...