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...CRIMSON still cling to the hope that the paragon of prophets will turn up in time to make his predictions about the games which open the gridiron season tomorrow. Like all men of genius, the famous Chinese doctor is slightly eccentric. Perhaps, too, he is a little vain, and is planning a spectacular, last-minute entry to Cambridge...
...widespread, battled search which followed chased vain clues throughout New England, into Canada, as far south as Orlando, Fla. Once Judge Crater was thought to have joined his old law associate, U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, in Europe. Several Broadway girls professed acquaintance with him. Showgirl June Manners, said to be his friend, also was reported missing...
Last week, while his lawyers scurried about in vain to get a stay of execution pending appeal, Jermyn got into his automobile, drove blithely off to Walton, N. Y. where he had racehorses running, returned in time to begin his sentence...
...Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book was violently hammered on an anvil, doused in kerosene, burned on a bamboo pyre before the statue of Andres Bonifacio, one of the native leaders of the vain 1896 revolution against Spain. When a peasant in the crowd shouted Matay si Roosevelt ("Death to Roosevelt"), leaders quickly hushed...
...JACK* Cry all, "Alack!" And wring your hands in vain! SAM, JACK, and BEN, Cry all, "Amen!" In triplicate refrain! For you, I fear, This flying year By AMY are stir passed, Whom all the new Johnsonian crew Now welcome home at last...