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Detroit 3, Harvard 2. S.M. Dupertuis '28 defeated A.D. Hotchkiss, Detroit, 15-7, 15-6, 11-15, 15-10; R. Maxon, Detroit, defeated Seabury Oliver '28, 16-15, 16-13, 15-11; J.T. Paddock Detroit, defeated B.H. Wihtbeck '29, 15-17, 9-15, 15-6, 15-8, 15-9; A.G. Thatcher '29 defeated R. Hill, Detroit, 15-7, 9-15, 15-18, 15-7; Newhall, Detroit, defeated G.T. Francis...
With these figures at his fingertips, it takes Big Dan but a few minutes to persuade Grocer Paddock, Banker Winton, Realtor Jones, Judge Burnes and Major Riley of Westover?members of five different denominations?to accept from him, blushingly, and administer, a foundation of $2,559,494.08 to build three nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless...
...full force of this ending is brought home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...
...Majesty had strolled out to the paddock, and was regarding pensively a sleek little filly whose tail had been cropped short. A shadow of disapproval crossed the King's face as he inspected the very close-cropped tail...
...damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...