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...tenth jump Red Gold fell on his head and hurt himself fatally. Eric Atterbury, codesigner of the course, was thrown from Kilbairn and had concussion of the brain. They were more than half way round before Alligator, who had been running ninth, began to move ahead. Shrewd Charles Plumb Jr., a goodlooking young Long Island horse dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow but steady, surefooted, was second coming into the last turn. Wav.erly Star was two lengths in front. Waverly Star rose for a jump...
...ground. Then one horse got up and his man mounted him. It was Alligator and Plumb. Bally Yarn was second. Only other finisher among the 17 starters was Austin H. Niblack's Maitland...
...numbers were hearty and Elizabethan: a macabre portrayal of those plague-ridden times done with a winding sheet, and a rollicking trio of court dances. Then there was a choreographic exercise called "Plumb Line-a composition in line of the human form's law of balance," which, though curiously sinister, did not come off. Most startling and ingenious of the new numbers was "Narcissism," in which Miss Enters swaggered out on the state, gyrated to a wheezy phonograph, became convincingly drunken with self-love, was suddently moved fiercely to kiss her reflection in a mirror...
...some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
Last week no officers and men of Company F of the U. S. Eleventh Engineers sailed from Panama for Nicaragua well loaded with tripods, telescopes, plumb lines, and other surveyors' gadgets. By order of Secretary of War James William Good they will map the route along which the U. S. has the right to build an inter-ocean Nicaraguan Canal. The right was bought...