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...vaudeville stage for over 50 years, Mr. Dockstader's most famed performance was an act in which he appeared, with burnt cork on his face, accoutred in every detail, even to teeth, as President Roosevelt in Rough Rider's costume. His mere entrance brought a roar of laughter...
...Then Britain and the U. S. declined to sign an alliance with France to protect her against aggressive warfare. The builders of the edifice caught the cry of France. "Security," called Czechoslovakia. "Security," reËchoed the small nations of the earth. "Disarmament," voiced the idealists. Then the gruff roar of Great Britain rolled out the word "Arbitration." But the cornerstone remained the only part built of the new Europe that everyone wanted...
...site has been selected?the old American League baseball grounds. No more peanuts, no more pop; beds will occupy the space that once contained bleachers; rubber gloves will replace the old saliva-oiled mits; and the palisades of the Hudson, that once echoed to the roar of ten thousand fans, will hear not a whisper, not a single cry of "Take...
Filling the afternoon air with a droning roar, racing speedboats plowed foamy furrows up and down the Niagara River at Buffalo. Chief plowhand was Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold Cup. Baby Gar IVs average speed for the 150 miles was 42.06 m.p.h. Rainbow, owned by S. B. Eagan of Buffalo, plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded...
...Rumson, N. J., where fish-hawks nest on telephone poles and the ocean waves roar loudly, four hard-galloping Californians swooped down on four Rockaway riders and captured the national junior* polo championship. Previously the Californians, who call them selves the Midwicks, had swooped upon a Meadowbrook team from Long Island. The Rockaway men had beaten an Army team in the other semi-final...