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...inconceivable. Then follows a great deal of melodrama, little of which is convincing. Her lover meets with an accident which leaves him blind. When she goes to see him in a hospital, she is arrested. In the final scene she marches out in a sweeping black robe in the center of the firing squad leaving her unwitting fiance behind; an ending that is perhaps tactful since myth has it that Mata Hari tore off her clothes, a diplomatic habit of her's, at the last moment...
...Heavyweight Tom Gibbons, he had worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Fargo, N. Dak. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where two years ago he won the most spectacular fight of his career against Jimmy McClarnin, ugly little Petrolle last week sat wrapped in his lucky Indian robe, scowling across the ring at a promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round, kept on trading punches until the sixth when Petrolle, who does most of his work with his left, surprised him into unconsciousness with a right. Petrolle's victory assured...
Whereas the accumulative glamour of past meetings cannot be said to drape today's contest in the robe of tradition, there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
Lord Abbot Emeritus. Japanese public opinion continued with honest simplicity to support the Japanese Army's action in Manchuria for what it was, a land grab. But Japan has her equivalent to an Archbishop of Canterbury. Voluminous in his sombre robe, the Buddhist Elder, Count Kozui Otani, Lord Abbot Emeritus of the Great Western Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, summoned U. S. correspondents and sonorously declared...
...Charles Jefferson Miller of New Orleans, the College's president, in red-collared academic robe and gold-tasseled mortarboard cap, upbraided lay critics of medical men. He denounced "those articles in magazines whose standards, one used to believe, were rather higher than the publication of half truths and misrepresentations and downright falsehoods. I confess that a rather unworthy suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very...