United States or Solomon Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
McKelvey had been the hero of the Class of '96; not only football captain and hammer-thrower but debater, and passable in what the State University considered scholarship. He had gone on, had captured the construction-company once owned by the Dodsworths, best-known pioneer family of Zenith. He built state capitols, skyscrapers, railway terminals.
James J. Jeffries, the pugilist, has a comparatively small head, a large jaw, and huge bones and muscles. Ex-President Taft has a comparatively small head, round face, round body, round arms and legs. These are differences in structure. Hall Caine is of the mental type. He is by nature unfitted to be either a pugilist, a hammer-thrower, an explorer, a banker, or a judge.
Why, it would have been play to turn down that young husky's. But this arm he continued to look at it with such dubious perplexity as to bring a roar of laughter from the young men. This laughter aroused him. He joined in it at first, and then his face slowly grew grave. He leaned toward the hammer-thrower. "Son," he said, "let me whisper a secret.
His only idea was to batter the life out of the man before him, to crush and annihilate him upon the instant. Gripping his enemy in his enormous hands, hard and knotted, and covered with a stiff fell of yellow hair the hands of the old-time car-boy he swung him wide, as a hammer-thrower swings his hammer.
"How do you do?" said the girl, giving Cameron her hand and glancing saucily into his face. "I hear you are a piper and a hammer-thrower and altogether a wonderful man." "A wonderfully lucky man, to have the pleasure of meeting you," said Cameron, glancing boldly back at her. "And I am sure you can dance the fling," continued Isa. "All the Highlanders do." "Not all," said Cameron.
Word Of The Day