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...Storm King Highway near West Point, New York. I was driving 'Jezebel', the supply truck, down a very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through the roof at the first collision, but Barrier was pinned...
...Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii...
...66th hour, the "twelve good men and true" with circles under their eyes, as gloomy as craters in the moon again walked into the courtroom. Harry Daugherty watched them with one eye, covered his other inflamed one with a handkerchief. Colonel Miller chewed gum. Mrs. Miller bit her finger nails. Judge Mack wearily asked them: "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen...
...highly picturesque and significant mediaeval document, not without its spots of beauty--as, for example, in the bit about the dream of two doves, who "uttered again and again the sighs customary to doves, as if talking together." As the final bit of Barrett Wendell's abundant writing, acomplished at Portsmouth and in the Boston Athenaeum during the last summer and autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed...
...cultivated, it just growed," asserted Mr. Morris modestly when queried as to the origin and development of his stentorian tones. "I find that the Stadium is hardest on my voice. If have to make more than six or seven announcements during a game, I'm apt to be a bit hoarse in the evening. The Arena, however, has the worst acoustics. During five years, I've never been able to find a spot from which I can reach the entire audience...