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...first street talkers of the1 Salvation Army type, was Robert Flockhart (1778-1857). For 43 years he was a strange figure in Edinburgh streets. A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer. He was wont to dress in pantaloons, long, colored coat; wore a stock...
Died. Herbert Randolph Gait, 45, editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 13 years; of heart disease, at St. Paul, Minn...
...good Kate is estranged. He sustains his erring child by letter; providentially he injects the solvent of good nature into the too-feminine atmosphere of his spacious home. With his morning flower in its accustomed place, his quizzical brows alert, his disquieting remarks and bright-eyed scheming, his gait still reminiscent of the sailor's roll, he is the captain of his hearth, steady in domestic storm as in the days when (before magnatehood) he spoked the wheels of tall ships. The family bark reaches harbor battered but safe...
Captain Ellison is at the same time one of the most awkward and the most effective of hockey players. With a peculiar gait, comparable perhaps to that displayed by great open field runners such as Grange and Mahan, he moves up the ice at a speed that is not apparent from the spectators' seats. On the defensive, his tremendous reach, his weight and his aggressiveness make him effective if not graceful. Coady, who will report for hockey after a two weeks lay-off, is of all the Crimson skaters the least versatile, but he makes up, in the excellence...
...feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait of a college quarterback and a stiff little mustache like a French soldier's. One day last week he dropped in on Mayor Walker and through an interpreter-for the young man is entitled to his mustache, and speaks none but his native language-told his grinning host that...