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Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
...innumerable gambling places and speakeasies. Almost completely ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years ago through cast-iron hydrants and bronze pipes into dingy pagodas...
...onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress...
...Cuba. He speaks broken, almost unintelligible English. Asked what makes him so good, he points to his head. He is temperamental, histrionic: after losing a close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself. In some Latin countries there are no nets in front of the stands because the spectators feel it would be unsportsmanlike not to risk injury by the ball which can break noses, fracture bones. The Chicago stands are protected. Sometimes the players, running for a hard get and unable...
...Vagabond was well supplied with good will in fact, so thorough going was his genial spirit that it included even Uncle Albert who last year donated a smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in each car. The result of his visit to the pedlars and pushcarts of the metropolis across the Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha...