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Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.?Trying for No. 3, this young Philadelphian for days concealed the fact of a broken rib, but ultimately had to lose a week's practice. Sound, he might beat out Webb and Stevenson or even Pedley...
...complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed...
Perhaps a few years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...
...secluded spot in John D. Rockefeller's estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. The figure of Adam is 25 feet high, and the two are said to have been cut from the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought to America. The design represents Eve issuing from the rib of Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture and would have none of it in his collection. Barnard's own superb masculine nude...
Broke every single rib of Jake Kilrain...