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...sore ailment, described on the programs as "indisposition," smote Tenor Beniamino Gigli just before he was to appear as Vasco da Gama in L'Africaine. Mario Chamlee sprang into the breach. Without rehearsal, without ever having appeared in the role on any stage, he sang it resonantly, fluently, confidently...
...rock with his trowel; Architect Cram gave a signal to his men; the block and tackle twitched the stone aloft, lowered it reverently into place upon the box. Now there was only one more thing to do. The Bishop picked up a heavy mahogany mallet. Three times he smote the stone and in reverberating accents intoned...
...soul-sick one called for his bill. It was exorbitant. He seized a femur from the wall. With one blow he smote the waiter senseless to the floor; with another he felled a fellow-drinker who had rushed to the waiter's defense...
...footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd, is a humbling game. Out sallied Lloyd to play in the finals against 18-year-old Eugene Homans, Junior Metropolitan Champion. His putter jerked, his wrists smote the ball over, under and around; Homans defeated him, 4 up and 2 to go. Golf- mused Lloyd, as he saw presented to Homans a silver flagon four feet high- golf...
...passed by, stopped to curse, to abuse Gettis for his idleness. When reproved, he issued a profane challenge to fisticuffs. A crowd formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully upon the chin, dropped him to the sidewalk. Said Mr. Gettis: "I'm not too old to thrash an upstart...