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...Bulgaria and M. Iltcheff, Director of the Sofia Museum, comfortably seated in an automobile, were being whirled along the white road that lies between Orchanie, a country town, and Sofia, the capital. As the car passed along a narrow strip of road between two high banks, a volley of shots rang out. M. Iltcheff and a servant were killed, the chauffeur was wounded, one side of the King's moustache was clipped. Instantly, the King took control of the car but, failing to turn it on account of the broken steering gear, jumped out and. returned the fire...
...challenger. Opposite him stood a diminutive but hirsute Italian, his eyes as fierce as the dark lakes of Il Pitrgatorio, his round muscles bulging under his sleek brown skin. He looked truly what he was-the bantamweight champion of the world. He charged his pathetic opponent like a volley of round-shot. But what was this? A spattering of left jabs stopped his rush, jerked back his head, made the flesh puff around his eyes. Again he charged, again the haggard challenger flicked ' him, right, left. For 13 rounds, the sturdy champion took a dreadful drubbing. Then, with that...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, he for whom, some weeks ago, there rolled a volley of such shouts, claps, that a revival of Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was stopped until he took a curtain call and taxi-drivers without looked at one another in amaze (TIME, Jan. 12), last week gave a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, sang songs old and new. Though the audience did not, like that former one, rise to its feet shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" through the confusion of the darkened theatre, it forced him, nevertheless, to deliver seven encores. Again Tibbett acquitted himself with modest...
Actual practice cannot begin until the opening of the tennis courts, which will probably take place on April 6. Until then there will be no regular work except for occasional volley practice in the athletic building. The first match is scheduled for April 18 when the team meets the Agawam Hunt Club at Providence...
...arrived at the spot, carrying out the sentence near the river in the small morning hours. I addressed my soldiers, pointing out to them the significance of the situation, and gave the command. The volley was fired and both leaders fell dead...