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...excitement was stirred up by tiny Banderillera Angelina Medina, whose sobriquet is La Pulga (Flea). Having done a passable job of sticking her paper-twined darts into the bull, Angelina suddenly realized that the beast was coming after her. She turned to scramble over the wooden barrier...
Died. Ralph D. Blumenfeld, 84, Wisconsin-born, British-naturalized editor of the London Daily Express (1902-1932); in Dunmow, Essex. Blumenfeld joined the Daily Express when its circulation was 250,000, helped raise it to more than 2,000,000, and won the sobriquet, "Father of Fleet Street," before he retired...
...surprising, then, that Harvard, with its own little corps of militia men, acquired the sobriquet of "military" when the strife was at last ever. For a while the "mercury" militia still drilled on the Common or on the Delta, where Memorial Hall now stands, and Cambridge was for a while thought of as a very warlike community. The loyalists on Tory Row, now Brattle Street, had left hurriedly for Canada, and the Yankee merchants who moved into the fine old houses established a standard of luxury that showed a new, rich era had indeed arrived. One party of Colonel Henry...
...down the gangways. All night long, rain or shine, the work went on, as the merchandise of the Mississippi Valley flowed southward through the artery and the merchandise of the world flowed back again. New Orleans* was no longer just the "City That Care Forgot"-a tourist-bureau sobriquet which the city's businessmen now disdained...
...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...