Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forecast is injured! Word arrived to this effect late yesterday evening from coastguards near Old Point Comfort. The telegram reads: "Harvard Crimson stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard...
...SERIOUS...
...quarter finals, Frank Shields, the U. S. Junior Champion who lives in Brooklyn and has a serious face, beat famed Jacques Brugnon, the veteran of the French contingent, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0. Abruptly people realized that Shields had not yet, in his six tournament matches, lost a single set. Would he beat Cochet in the semifinals? Basing their predictions upon the failure of previous predictions, the experts admitted that he might. Shields didn't. In the finals, Hunter met Cochet...
...with her cronies that she could make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer. The abduction, done in a spirit of fun and platonically, comes close to Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water...
Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...