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Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson...
More earthy is Subway Technique: a leering woman with a bag of popcorn reacting favorably to the furtive advances of a subway masher in yellow gloves...
Sued. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; by Charlotte Poillon; for $5,000. Charge: failure to reward her for disclosing an extortion plot. Charlotte Poillon and her sister, Katherine, have graced many a courtroom since 1900, when they thrashed a masher in Central Park...
Each year the calloused, potato-masher snouts of pigs probe the earth of southern France, bring up $15,000,000 worth of truffles for the omelets, canapes, sauces, poultry dressings of world gourmets. No ordinary packing house pigs are these animals. They are usually as well trained, as highly esteemed as good quail dogs or fox hounds...
...hand grenades, while other less fortunate soldiers drilled, marched and sweated in the courtyard below. Young Lieutenant Jovice gave the lecture. Before him lay a loaded hand grenade, not the compact "pineapple" type of Mills bomb familiar to thousands of U. S. War veterans, but a long handled "potato masher" grenade, the type once used by Germany. Said Lieutenant Jovice: "Five seconds after the safety pin is pulled out this bomb will explode. Were I about to throw it I would hold the bomb by the handle, so, and would pull out this pin. I keep the arm stiff...