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Butter barrages aimed at student waiters were until recently quite popular in the Yale Commons; oneing a butter-tosser with six glasses heckled waiter retaliated by drench of milk...
...convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor...
...strength, Bull Moore was marvelous. He could fight three men at a time, toss a waiter across the bar of a lunch counter, lift the front wheels of an automobile with one hand. With a slight edge on his appetite, he would break a dozen eggs into his mother's frying pan and eat them in six mouthfuls...
Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden...
...broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter accept. What Mary Smith does not know is that the young man is J. B. Ball's only son, rebelliously trying to make his own way in the world. What neither...