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Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
...champion is blonde, naïve and nonchalant. Unlike petite Audrey Peppe, who at 6 learned the rudiments of figure skating under the tutelage of her famed aunt, Joan Tozzer is the only figure skater in her family. She learned her figures from Boston's Willie Frick, tutor of Maribel Vinson. Once a year, on Christmas Day, Joan Tozzer goes skating at the Boston Arena with her father, who cannot so much...
...conquered all of China & ruled more subjects than he could count. Producer Goldwyn's Cathay is pretty thoroughly under the well-manicured thumb of Basil Rathbone, a saturnine, bewhiskered minister of state. And Producer Goldwyn's Marco Polo finds career enough for any Venetian in naïve, unkissed Princess Kukachin, with her wide-set eyes, parted, quivering lips, two-story hairdo...
General Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection of Army barracks in the South of Ireland. He rode in an open touring car and was accompanied by a Rolls-Royce whippet armored car as escort. At Beal-Na- Blath, County Cork, he was ambushed. He immediately ordered his men to return the fire and led the attack on the ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that...
...after fifteen years of translation from English to Gaelic and given to the College by Fred N. Robinson '91, Guerney Professor of English, at the Tercentenary celebration. Among the Irish manuscripts on display are "The Dialogue of St. Patrick and Ossian," "The Story of Eadhmonn O'Cleirridh," and "Trompa Na Bflaithios...