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...taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband, Sir Abe...
...Whang! Crack! Crash! Crumple! At 4 o'clock one morning, an automobile driven by one Abe Schnider, Washington nighthawk, careened into and through the iron entrance gate at the southwest corner of the White House grounds. Abe Schnider's girl friends, terrified but unhurt, crept out to squeak and whisper over the damage. Rueful, Mr. Schnider rubbed his head. Watchmen soon haled the gatecrashers to court. Later in the morning Abe Schnider called at the White House. He was told that the White House's occupant and custodian would bring no charge against him if he would...
...could drive steel like John Henry I'd go home, Baby, I'd go home. And later: This old hammer killed John Henry. Can't kill me, Baby, can't kill me. Torchlight processions of Republicans in the summer and fall of 1860 sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There...
...youth who solved his native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore Roosevelt telegraphed: "All good...
...Mabel Youmans, 180 pounds, thrust her formidable body and glowering countenance through the door of the Sandy Field, N. Y., (pop. 120), schoolhouse one day last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often...