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...which was attractive young Miss Elinor Patterson, daughter of Major Joseph Medill Patterson, the Tribune's owner and publisher. In no uncertain words the Tribune's 1,020,427* readers were let into the secret of how Miss Patterson's "lovely skin with its rare petal texture, its flush of unfolding youth, its transparent delicacy" is kept "imperishable" in spite of a "double strain" that now bears upon...
...recipient smiles and shakes his head as if a drop of water had landed on him. This is usually enough to discourage most sockers. In Buffalo last week, it discouraged Jimmy Goodrich, who was at the moment lightweight champion of the world. He had just socked Rocky Kansas, challenger, flush on the button. It was the middle of the second round. Throughout the first, Rocky (a hairy 133-pound bullyboy, battered and be-cauliflowered by innumerable brawls) had come plunging in at a pace that would surely be impossible for him to keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited...
...Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts of satire. Such a book has not been written since La Revolte des Anges...
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...been dealt. There was the ace of hearts, the king, queen, jack of hearts, and another card that was neither a heart nor a ten. Hence the grin upon the face of Mr. Schnugg; he had come so near to having the highest hand in poker, a natural royal flush, and his chance of drawing the needed card (ten of hearts) was so minute as to be nigh undecipherable. Mr. Schnugg stretched out his hand to the pack, flushed to the ears. He had done...