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...semifinals, the Moody adversary was Phyllis Mudford, smallest member of the British Wightman Cup team, who had beaten Sarah Palfrey of Boston in the third round. Wearing an eyeshade and an expression of appealing determination, she looked so eagerly incompetent that Mrs. Moody neglected to put customary pace on her shots after winning the first five games. Little Miss Mudford then played as tigerishly as she could, ran the score...
...There is not and never has been the smallest ground for suggesting that Miss Douglas-Pennant was guilty of any kind of moral turpitude or moral fault or moral obloquy. . . . There is no charge whatever against Miss Douglas-Pennant's general efficiency...
Danat. Next morning the storm broke. Danat, the Darmstädter and National bank, smallest of the three D Banks, failed to open its doors. Hysterical investors started runs on the others. To ward off complete calamity Old Paul von Hindenburg authorized the Government to close all German stock exchanges and banks for two days. Beggar Luther, still dizzy from traveling, climbed into his airplane again and rushed off to Basle to beg again from the Bank for International Settlements...
...anyone to name the daily newspapers published in English in Manhattan. It is an almost certain wager that he will omit one-the smallest one, the newest one, by far the most curious one. Yet any morning except Monday he may step up to the newsstand in the Hotel Pennsylvania, or to two others nearby, and exchange three pennies for a copy of the Repository ("An Independent Newspaper") which last week published its 120th issue...
...West to ten weeks, in the southern Atlantic States to eight weeks: and further reduces the number of live goose decoys allowed to not more than ten. Cause for the change: serious drought in nesting areas, reported to have reduced this year's hatch of wildfowl to the smallest on record...