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...cavalry as a separate division of the army. Sheridan had two big jobs: policing the Shenandoah Valley and beating Confederate Cavalry General J. E. B. Stuart. He cleared the Valley and on a raid behind Lee's lines Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern. Many a schoolboy knows of the Battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, supposedly riding hard from Winchester, "20 miles away," rallied his men and turned a rout into victory. Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked his horse a good...
...under world (Arnold Rothstein, Nicky Arnstein), stage-door playboy (Gertrude Vanderbilt, Peggy Hopkins Joyce). A brilliant improviser, he defended his cases with very little preparation; but, when it was necessary he could digest four technical books on gynecology in one night. In court he was the perennial schoolboy who plagued the judge to win the jury. His carelessly superior air drove opposing lawyers wild. Defending a well-ankled blackmailer, he won her first trial by exposing as much of her legs as pos sible to the jury; won the next one by having a fence built around the witness chair...
...venture is a laudable one, and will have served its purpose well if it helps to reduce that trying period of adjustment which attends the emergence of the college man from the schoolboy stage...
...front cover) Throughout the U. S. last week schoolboys had packed their college pennants in mothballs and were off for summer holidays, But in England, school was by no means over. At Harrow, Governor's Speech Day took place. This week at Eton prize awards are being made. Then will follow one of the year's most pleasant occasions: the Long Weekend of the Long (Summer) Term. To Lord's Cricket Ground.- in London's pleasant suburbs will the schoolboy go, to see played the Eton-Harrow cricket match...
...Rugby was invented the schoolboy terminology "Rugger." Other schools still say "footer" for football, which each school plays according to its own rules...