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...lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete, he reveals the brilliance and supreme persuasive power which have often made Conservatives favor him for the post...
...Moines, the track was sodden. They soaked the cinders in gasoline and touched a match, but it rained again. Undiscouraged, Roland Locke of the University of Nebraska, "fastest U. S. sprinter," leapt from his mark and fled to a tape 100 yards away in what the second-splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared...
...board the liner Paris in mid-ocean last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski was giving a concert while the ship bounced on the stormy sea like a pea on a reverberating drumhead. Waves pounded her forefoot with a sodden, heavy impact; the wind found a flute to blow in every cranny; passengers in the saloon struggled to keep their chairs from skidding together. Paderewski played on. Suddenly three great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies...
...weather was inclement and disagreeable. But late in the afternoon the President and Colonel Harvey went for a walk. They were caught in a sudden drenching shower, and the summer season ended suddenly and effectually for Mr. Coolidge's straw hat. Sodden and wilted it drooped disconsolately on the way home...
...wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...