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Leys then shipped for Singapore, where he taught dancing for a while at a hotel. Later he joined an Italian circus on the waterfront, and finally achieved the honor of being head of the checkroom for the ball which was being held in honor of the Prince of Wales, visiting there. During all this while Leys was losing time, while Plumer was racing on to New York...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing an amusement park on a waterfront, and were asked to design all the features, concessions, amusement devices, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and convenience of patrous...
Only their bishop had an overcoat yet without shivering, in waterfront breezes of December, 214 curious-looking people stood three hours one day last week on a Manhattan pier. Then they sailed on the S. S. Western World for Paraguay...
...raddle-faced ruffians glared at each other across a table in a waterfront saloon. The little glasses at their elbows were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the bartender was called over. Money changed hands-to each of the ruffians a yellow bill, to the bartender a large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until...
Next day fully 200,000 people crowded into the stadium at Soldiers' Field on the Lake Michigan waterfront, heard addresses by Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich, the Honorable David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Cardinal Dubois of Paris, Archbishop Mannix of Melbourne, Australia. (The next, 1928, Eucharistic Congress will be at Sydney, Australia.) Cardinal Bonzano himself celebrated solemn Pontifical High Mass. A choir of 60,000 children sang the "Mass of the Angels...