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Author Howe is at his best, however, in recapturing the charm and wit which held the Saturday Club and Boston dinner tables spellbound, prompting Charles Kingsley to stammer on his U. S. visit: "He is an insp-sp-sp-ired j-j-j-ack...
With a Cra-a-a-ack! the ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume from the nose. For an instant the Hindenburg seemed a rearing reptile darting its tongue in anger. Then it was a gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last...
...machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight for the cab, swerved clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over bumps and ruts, crashed into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours...
...this activity will rise two houses--Unit No. 1 ack of the present Gore Hall and Unit No. 2 on a triangular lot on the Boston idea of Mckinlock Hall, bordering on the river. Unit No. 1 will be in the form of a double quadrangle, architecturally much like an enlarged and reduplicated duplicated Smith Halls with a towe over the main entrance. Unit No. 1 will bear more resemblance in style the present Standish Hall. In that the courtyard will open on the river. It will be higher, over twice as large a Standish, however, and there will...
...Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag...