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...second-string line which is destined to see plenty of action tonight. Dick Scott holds down the center ice position. Scott is a fast, experienced player, and probably the best man on the squad with a poke check. Henry Crosby, one of the regulars on the freshman team last year, plays at right wing on this combination, with Henry Tudor, captain of the yearling outfit of a year ago holding down the other extremity...
...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
...Soak the mossbacks, poke the thinskins, ridicule the stuck-ups but don't let my subscription lapse. I'm seriously considering dispensing with the daily papers...
...Soak! Poke...
...talked about German corporations, champagne parties at the Ritz, a suicide, millions of dollars' worth of stock, thousands of dollars' worth of Liberty bonds, burned bank records, conspiracy. . . . Many times the narrative became incoherent, drowned in a flood of legal monstrosities. . . . Sometimes the twelve jurors had to poke each other to fight sleep...