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...Courier-Journal Colonel Watterson said flatly that Theodore was "as mad as a March hare," suggested that his family ought to lock him up before he did more harm. Another time he called Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." When World War I began, Marse Henry wrote: "We must not act either in haste or passion." But it was his habit to end his editorials with the cry: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
Last week a car speeding from Cicero crashed into a telephone pole, its windows shattered by bullets, a bloody corpse at its wheel. The man was Edward J. O'Hare, president of the National Jockey Club, president of Sportsman's Park track (once owned by Capone). In Cicero they had not forgotten...
Although Finns have always assumed the tortoise's role in the tortoise vs. hare battles of Olympic competition, they have enjoyed exceptional success in the international games, having won 69 gold medals since 1906, in addition to 57 silver and 58 bronze awards. Of the gold laurels, 37 were gained in track and field events, 21 in wrestling, and the remainder in winter sports...
...County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches, not one of these exasperating hares had been caught. On the first...
...Plentiful in Dutchess County because an Austrian peasant, settling there some 50 years ago after making a fortune in the U. S., stocked his 3,000-acre estate with European hare to make it seem more like home...