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...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...
...hurdle record was set aside by a Southern Californian, who pounced the distance in 23 2/5 sec., steeplechasing over obstacles in what was formerly fairly good time for a straightaway...
...huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway, had by her a lusty set of triplets, departed with her into the wide world "as the birds do and the wind." Suspense and tragedy are wholly absent from the book...
...drink alcoholics. His passions were cigars, clean sportsmanship, straightforwardness, philanthropy and ice-cream. A millionaire at his death, he died as he would have liked to-in a hot race. At Brooklands, England, another racing figure was killed in action. Scorching down the famed speed saucer's straightaway, 122 miles an hour, Dario Resta's Grand Prix Sunbeam, with the power of 160 horses, went out of his control, skidded for 300 yards, shot sidewise over the saucer's edge, crashed an iron fence, nose-dived into the ground, righted, burst into flames. Resta was hurled headlong...
...yards dash, Norton of Yale is a sure winner, but Robb, a Crimson sprinter, seems able to beat Locke of Yale down the straightaway to second place, if he is able to repeat his splendid race against McKim at Princeton last Saturday...