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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cochet, wearing shorts like Austin's for the first time in his career, ran up a 4-1 lead. Perry broke his service and won his own twice to tie the score. With the score 4-5 and advantage-in, Perry served what looked like an ace. The linesman called it a fault and Cochet gallantly caught the next serve in his left hand. The set then turned into a long exchange of service games which ended 10-8 for Cochet. Perry took the next two which followed the same pattern, 6-4 and 8-6. Cochet...
Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said...
...Grew serenely stood their ground. In two minutes it turned out that a Japanese policeman, thinking to turn on some electric lights, had pushed by mistake a lever which turned in a general alarm. "Very sorry! Must be fixed!" babbled an excited police official. "This accident has happened twice before...
...assassins who might still be lurking about by proving just how indomitably expansionist the present government of Japan really is. Fresh programs of army, navy and air expenditures were announced which will shoot Japan's budgetary expenditures for the coming year up to 2½ billion yen-almost twice the estimated budgetary receipts. As usual Japanese bankers and businessmen will be forced to "balance" the budget by absorbing a huge bond issue, while Japan's warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think about all lights were suddenly switched...
...Lowell's pink bloomers fluttering from the flag lanyard. Says Authoress Lowell: "Honest, I don't know who put them up there. . . ." The Record editor plastered Boston with pictures of his Gal Reporter, then sent her out in disguise on various rough assignments. She was seldom recognized. Twice she was in danger of having more than her disguise removed. Posing as a dancer looking for work, she allowed a white slaver to take her to his room where she was badly beaten, but refused to take her clothes off, and had the presence of mind, while...