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...Brusque comedy with a shaven neck wherein two prizefighters blunder into a luxurious household; marry the servants, and win the lightweight championship of the world...
Amundsen. Washed, shaven, rested, rid of his heavy Arctic furs, bareheaded. Explorer Roald Amundsen paced the bridge of the collier Albr. W. Selmer. At the ship's bows, a grinding noise. Up came the anchor, off went a thunderous salute from the Norwegian Government steamer Heimdal near by. Spectators ashore raised their voices in the Norwegian national anthem and the Albr. W. Selmer puffed laboriously out of Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (Norwegian possession), bound for Horten, Norway, about 1,500 miles northeast of there...
...brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz...
Great numbers of medicos, some wearing the conventional air of sympathetic abstraction and, on their chins, the familiar bedside Vandyke, but a surprising number of them clean-shaven, brisk, straightforward men of business, convened, last week, in Chicago, at the annual Congress on Medical Education. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, presided; Dr. Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, stood up to address the brisk medicos. He told about the struggles to get a good medical school started in Canada. Others spoke on such topics as the progress of medical education...
...Czar Convokes His First Crown Council," reads the headline. Grand Dukes of all the Russias, big and little, red and white shaven and unshorn, are ordered to assemble before the august resence of the Mightiest of the Mighty to center upon important matters of state. His Majesty Cyril I has spoken...