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...same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally, to secure the votes of a certain faction the mayor has been willing to hurl insults at the popular leader of a foreign power at peace with the United States...
Facing its first game at home, the Varsity baseball team will engage Boston University at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. Dick Walsh will hurl for the Crimson, making his third start of the season...
...seclusion on his farm, where it is Il Duce's habit to make grave decisions, would now have to admit that Dictator Stalin's agents are getting together the better Spanish war machine. Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came...
...pitching burden for the Crimson nine will probably be carried by Ingalls, last year's ace, who will hurl at least two, if not three games. Dick Walsh is sure of a starting berth in one of the other contests, while the third starter will be found among Curtiss, Prouty, and Victor...
Grand Opera, properly done, calls for a great deal of energetic tussling, smiting, stabbing, swooning and falling. Grand Opera performers are not artists unless they hurl themselves into the action as well as the music. It is surprising that more artists are not hurt, especially during rehearsals when they are working up routines, yet Grand Opera mishaps are usually more silly than solemn, and provide people with amusing table talk. Metropolitan devotees still chuckle over the impetuous Jeritza who kept falling and singing arias from unlikely positions. Oldsters remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen...