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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
Hooverites explain that the President-Elect will make the Presidency a bigger job than it ever was; that he will Organize it and obtain Cooperation, Efficiency. It has often been said of Mr. Hoover, with various inflections: "He's a man who makes big jobs out of little ones...
Europeans have always marveled that the diplomatic and consular representatives of the U. S. are so often of the same strain as the people to whom they are accredited. For example, the U. S. Minister to Norway is Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn., and husband of onetime Miss Ingeborg Odegaard of Norseland, Minn. Last week another instance of this sort of thing strikingly appeared in a report of the U. S. Consul-General at Paris, Mr. Alphonse Gaulin, a one-time Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., where live many French-Canadians...
Pius IX was a visionary. To him came voices and often he expected divine wrath to crush the enemies he himself could not subdue. He could be suave, diplomatic, dignified. But the Kings and Emperors of Europe, like gnats, pestered him till he seemed no more the Vicar of God, but a petty, earthly prince whose lands the Kings wanted?...
...Italy was a man called Garibaldi who had escaped many deaths, who hated Austria and whose name rang often and fervently in the hills of Piedmont...