Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paulo, Brazil, last week, a one-ring circus was held. At the end of circus, as a final and most brilliant attraction, a wrestling match was arranged between a gigantic nameless Bahian Negro and a small, engaging Jap, name unknown. After a few minutes wrestling, the black Bahian had the Jap on his back; but the Jap rolled over, snickering, and at the end of the wrestling he was sitting like a prime minister upon the dark and heaving stomach of his adversary...
Last week the dead Marshal, Marie Emile Fayolle, 76, was interred at Paris with greater pomp than has been accorded any Frenchman since the Unknown Soldier was laid beneath the Arc de Triomphe...
...Cheney of Chicago, doctor of a discreetly unknown company, had acted far more drastically than Dr. Murray; at Minneapolis he had spoken far more emphatically. Said he: "More than 99% of our executives are troubled with constipation. ... I have also found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise...
...Mason there was much horseplay and jostling, which, as every cinemaddict knows, is the way strong men have of showing affection for each other. Handsome Jack (Jack Holt) has an affair with Snuggles (Dorothy Revier), grows so fond of her ways that he actually marries her. Unknown to Handsome Jack, Snuggles seduces Best Friend Mason who happens to be a member of a submarine crew. When Jack learns that there has been an affair he is angry with his friend. The submarine in which Mason is cruising is sunk. Dorgan is the best diver in the service, but he refuses...
While her club was still swinging, he heard a dull crack. Rosa Ponselle toppled over at his feet. A ball sliced by an unknown golfer had struck her forehead just above the eyes. She was unconscious with a slight concussion of the brain. Nonetheless the woman's unbeaten will to sing which got her vocal lessons, during her Meriden. Conn., poverty, carried her the next evening to sing at Lake Placid for the benefit of the Saranac Lake Society for the Control of Tuberculosis...