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There is a new saga to be sung in Nova Scotia-about Johnny Miles, the Welsh pugilist's son, who worked in the coal drifts at Cape Breton until his father saw he was a footracer. It will tell how Johnny was found a job aboveground, driving a grocer...
When people heard that "Oh, Dear," slim-legged courser of the Prince of Wales, had died of heart failure while making a jump (see COMMONWEALTH), they realized with vicarious contrition that a horse has a heart that may burst. "Oh, Dear" undoubtedly had a weak heart, although heart disease is...
When A Light from St. Agnes, jazz opera, was produced in Chicago (TIME, Jan. 4), a number of ordinarily well-controlled gentlemen fell upon W. Franke Harling, the composer, as he was leaving the opera house and showered him with hugs and kisses. Composer Harling declared, in a trembling speech...
"Here," he suggested genially, passing a handful of cigars to the stark-legged captives, "you might as well smoke while you're waiting." the unhappy patrons obediently puffed, while the bandits made their escape.
Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of...