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...batting of E. H. McGrath '31, who got two singles and a triple, and G. E. Donaghy '29, who garnered a long home run and a single, each scoring men on bases, were outstanding. The individual fielding gem was contributed by S. L. Batch elder '31, who gathered in Cascaddis' foul fly close to the grandstand while running at full speed...
...heard on Monday morning in the coppices at Coombe Hill, Surrey. Two items down appeared an intimation that the Duke of Gloucester, third son of His Majesty George V, had consented to become the Patron of a charitable institute. Provokingly mysterious and stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea. The officer found more...
Peru. The first capital city founded by Europeans in any of the Americas was Lima (see Map). This was the "City of Kings," the very mecca of Spain's rash conquistadors, the "fairest gem on the shores of the Pacific," and the haughty citadel from which the Spanish Viceroy proclaimed his rule over "the entire Continent of South America...
Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
...SOOTING RECORD is "A Gem Paganini" and "French Kisses" played by Mark Weber Orchestra, and recorded in Europe...