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...Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little difference between these three papers and the "rigidly nonpartisan" World. Incidentally, the most virulently partisan paper in the city, although it is new and therefore small, is the Bulletin, a rip-snorting Democrat...
...accents he screamed at the referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round...
...advertising in this July issue (replete with " muscular poses" by Earle E. Liederman, Charles Atlas, Lionel Strongfort, Prof. Titus et al.; with "beauty poses" by Annette Kellermann, Mile. Nadje, Nana Sterling et al.) : YOU CAN DEVELOP EVERY MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY TO AMAZING PROPORTIONS YOU CAN ACQUIRE SUPER STRENGTH RIP OFF YOUR SHIRT "Come to me and I'll shoot you so full of strength and vitality you'll think it's your birthday. . . . This is no idle prattle, fellows. . . . I've got the works. . . ." YOUR WOMANLY BEAUTY CAN BE DEVELOPED THE BUST...
...outskirts of the town, to minimize danger to others, and stayed on board as long as he dared. He then unloosed his safety belt, crawled out on the wing, and jumped into 1,800 feet of darkness. The wind blew him clear, and he counted two before pulling the rip cord, so that the parachute might be clear of entanglement. Macready did not know whether he was upside down or not when he left the ship, or whither he was heading. But he heard the parachute snap open and knew well that he would land somewhere. Edward A. Wuichet...
There followed another tonal translation, Rip Van Winkle's Homeward Journey-Washington Irving in terms of Herr Dr. Richard Strauss, by one William Schroeder...