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...Ranji" was champion cricket batsman for All England, scoring 2,780 runs with an average of 59.91 -figures which Englishmen still ad mire. Today the "Ranji" cricket tradition is carried on by his nephew Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji who, as the Cricketers' Almanac for 1930 observes, "if not so famous as his renowned uncle ... is ... one of the great batsmen of the younger generation. . . . Like his uncle he possesses a remarkable eye and a pair of most supple wrists...
...inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen with utterly ruined grey toppers drove sadly up to London in waterlogged sport cars, their womenfolk clustered on sodden back seats with tired, disgusted, hair-streaked faces...
...world is only beginning to realize what we who love art have known all along, that Chicago is the city of destiny, that although our feet may be in the mire, our souls are peering into the beyond."-Sculptor Lorado Taft, addressing the Women's Chicago Beautiful Association...
Meanwhile the Wickersham Commission's recommendations were well mired in Congress. Predictions are freely heard that they will remain in the mire throughout this session. A House Judiciary sub-committee last week openly despaired of agreement on the proposal for juryless liquor trials. Legislation to transfer Pro hibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice is near the bottom of the Senate's calendar where it is likely to remain...
...complete agreement with the proposition that the amount of rest time allowed these workers put them essentially on the required hourly rate. A formal letter: of acknowledgement was all that was needed to set the matter at rest for all time. After just having emerged from the mire of publicity which came as a result of the neglect to do this, one can only admire Mr. Shattuck's restraint in his statement, "the College apparently omitted to furnish the formal evidence...