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...sporting blood surged up his spine; he awakened from his spell of dull lethargy and gave the accelerator a little push. "The gap between them widened slightly and then filled up again. The Ford again showed signs of passing him, but the game Chevrolet driver depressed his accelerator a bit more and drew away. And so the informal race continued, the Chevrolet playing with the Ford in much the same way that a fisherman casts for small-mouthed Bass-giving him plenty of slack and then drawing...
...floor, putting rustly newspapers on their laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar writing messages in commonplace English for the benefit of an elderly citizen of Washington." It was hardly less surprising to hear Roosevelt I admitting that 1912 was "great times but these are greater. I stand, behind my cousin...
This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...years ago on a drizzly December morning 75 Russians stood in the lounge of the M. S. Lafayette, each solemnly breaking off a bit of rye bread and dipping it in salt. The ceremony was an ancient one, observed in Russia by peasants and tsars. On this occasion it was intended to bring good fortune to the dancers of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, arriving in Manhattan for their first U. S. season...
...channel to Le Havre. All the French were very seasick, but there was one man who was English and he sat himself down and put a robe over him, placed a vomiting pan under his chin and then began to read his paper. He wasn't a bit excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell." After living in France...