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James Gleason, coauthor, gave a performance of vigorous vulgarity as the prize fight manager. Some of the Fifth Avenue accessories were rather startling, but the tough parts were swell...
Novorossiisk University, one of the largest in Southern Russia, received orders from Leningrad. It was expensive to the Soviet Government. Times were hard. Novorossiisk could have no more subsidies. It must close its doors. The faculty would proceed at once to Odessa University and swell the teaching ranks there...
Like all Hearst pulps, these two have vast circulations. In June, 1924, they were: Cosmopolitan, 1,126,767; Hearst's International, 439,655. Publisher Hearst's reasons for lumping these can only be guessed at. Perhaps he thinks the Cosmopolitan can swell, bigger and brighter, to another million or so. Perhaps he is disgusted with
...other service. Mr. O'Bannion is credited by the police with having directed 25 of Chicago's most distinguished murders- by his friends with innumerable secret charities, kindnesses. Said an old woman: "He put my boy on the right track." Said a newsboy: "He was a swell feller." Said Mayor Dever of Chicago: "The rule of the Gat is ended." Died. Edwin S. Montagu, 45, onetime Secretary of State for India; in London. He held his portfolio in the Lloyd George cabinet...
...course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered...