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...fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary revelations...
...England tennis is concerned, both men were entirely unknown when they started in the competition Saturday. The New Yorkers won four straight games only to be complied to play against each other in the semifinals. Shields, who is a champion in his own right, lost only to his team-mate. He holds the National Outdoor and Indoor Boys' Singles Championships...
...effortless, terrific stride, two jumps to one. Nobody could see the jockey's colors. Was this one of the unknowns - Light Carbine, Roy crofter? They came around the last corner into the homestretch; the strange horse wore E. R. Bradley's silks - he was Bagen-baggage, running-mate of Bubbling Over. Mr. W. R. Coe looked out, ashen-faced, from his box; Pompey had failed, there was no doubt of it; he had broken at the mile-turn. Bubbling Over was out in front, a sure winner, and his striding stable-brother was closing up behind him, passing...
...that ghastly, premeditated solitude which is the fate of a man without a room-mate is an eventuality which few American college men care to consider. Always excepting the small minority who find endless resources with in themselves, college men would be at a loss without companions in their studies. A room-mate is always accessible when one wishes money, recreation, or that more subtle shade of human relationship which goes by the name of friendship...
Conversely, however, the inertia of a room-mate burdened with work keeps his companion at home. In any event, the mutual urging of men accustomed to one another's opinions never has the devastating effect which an alien offer to go to the movies can produce...