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...aerial attack, when used throughout the game showed a distinct step up from the slip-shod method used during the earlier games of the season...
...Topsfield Fair in Boston a fortnight ago, two sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but as foals followed their dams over water-drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched...
...Nine years ago, before the U. S. entered the War, Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne was sent to Pensacola, for instruction in flying. Ever since, he has appeared to other men as one whose feet were shod with wings...
...meeeting of Republican editors at Lake Attitash, and politely suggested that Senator Butler (and Governor Fuller) also be invited?an effort to get Senator Butler into favor with the followers of the late Senator Lodge, who did not like the manner in which the Butler machine ran rough shod over Mr. Lodge at the Republican Convention last summer. Mr. Butler will have a real struggle to retain his seat because of the Lodge group and because of the strength of his Democratic opponent, David I. Walsh. Frederick H. Gillett beat Mr. Walsh last fall by only 25,000 votes although...
...lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully relit their masticated, short cigars. They had, as usual, been right...