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...nerves. He is at his best under pressure. He began to play with the desperate efficiency of a man defending his pride. In the last round he went out in the increditable score of 32, came in with a 34 to tie the course record, But the best his gallant effort could get him was second place. His title had been taken by Macdonald Smith, who thereby demonstrated to a skeptical world the oft-forgotten fact that the favorite sometimes wins, the know-it-alls are sometimes right...
...Thomas Lipton, gallant yachtsman with the barnacle beard whose toast is drunk in 5,000,000 cups of tea, is a sportsman who has made an enormous reputation for his tea by knowing how to be beaten. Last week, in the famed Shamrock IV, he heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry...
...Pepper" Martin. Having thus taken a gallant flyweight, Death laid a bleak forefinger on the throat of Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, stopped his breath. Martin-a boring, windmill, hell-for-leather youth-first came to fame as a bantamweight, put on weight, entered the junior lightweight division. A fortnight ago he was beaten by Alike Ballerino, Junior Lightweight Champion. During the bout he whispered to his handlers that he had a pain in his chest. He was defeated, went to a hospital with pneumonia, was defeated again...
...matter of War debt payments, and if France and Italy had not defied Britain's contention that they should not make separate settlements with the U. S. Lieut.-Col. Walker Guinness (son of the stout and beer manufacturer, Lord Iveagh), Financial Secretary of the Treasury, replied: "The gallant gentleman is under a misapprehension...
...honorable and gallant gentleman" was guilty of redundancy. Pari passu means simultaneously and equally. * "The noble lord" was wrong. With the exception of Bengal and the Central Provinces, the Act has had a fair chance which is proved by its success...