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...Congratulated Sol Bloom (Dem. N. Y.) on his 70th birthday. Representative Bloom, awakened in the morning by a flood of singing telegrams, objected to the way the telegraph girls sang: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloo-oom," made them change it to "Happy Birthday, dear Solly." That sounded better, said Songwriter Bloom...
...nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not good for much. Most of the time it merely plays pah to the cello's oom. Most of the people who pull horsehair bows over its goatgut strings are ex-violinists who failed to make the grade...
Boxer Lou Nova, who spent three years at the California College of Agriculture, is a serious sort, reads books, diets, sleeps long, goes for some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found him standing on his head-relaxing, he said. Thus relaxed, he handed Max quite a pasting. But Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., barman, is most relaxed with a bung-starter in his hairy...
...Schillings pleased Utica. Father George furnished most of the melody on a piano-accordion while Master Stan oom-pahed bass runs for Down the Field, Ragging the Scale, Christopher Columbus. Accustomed to learn his pieces entirely by ear, Stanwurt appeared completely at ease when Mr. von Schilling tried to confuse him by varying the rhythm and tempo of Dixie. Expert musicians pronounced Stanwurt's embouchure (placing of the lips on the mouthpiece) as good as his father had claimed it to be. As they moved on through music stores in Syracuse and Rochester, Mr. von Schilling reminded interviewers that...
...Oom Paul quickly recognized young Smuts's ability, made him State Attorney at 28, though he was not legally eligible. Smuts saw that war was imminent, worked like a Dutchman to prevent it. Nevertheless it came. (According to Author Millin, neither side really wanted war which was the work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony...