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Naturally if I didn't think my melodic line was stronger, "better," had more guts than the general ruck of music I wd. have burnt the mss. instead of instigating its performance...
...civil wars which hung over Peking and the route to the Gobi, impeded him more than the extortionists. During one air raid he saved his life only by hiding under a freight car. A shell fragment struck within two inches of his face. He burnt his fingers pulling the red-hot steel from the ground. En route to & from the desert bandits occasionally shot at the diggers. But there were no casualties. The late J. McKenzie Young, who had charge of the motor cars, was once attacked while driving alone. He routed the assailants by guiding his car with...
Aboard the Dutch Achilles, Captain Schoofs peeled off his burnt clothes, borrowed a uniform from the Dutch captain and was carried to Cherbourg where he briskly stepped ashore. "With extraordinary rapidity," he cried, "the electric wiring propagated the blaze! Fire broke out in several widely separated parts of the ship all at once...
...esteemed daily contemporary, The Crimson departing from its usual purpose of stabilizing, solemnizing and advising the universe, burnt into unexpected capera worthy of its skittish rival. With great particularity and ponderosity it told of the alleged financial straits of The Lampoon, printed a supposed confession from its president that it would have to shut up shop unless it got help. Especially affecting was the gravity with which "The Crime," as the wicked call it, shed tears over the thwarting of The Lampoon's efforts "to maintain a high standard of clean, wholesome humor." The Crime must be trying to hide...
...Rebecca, the beauteous, unhappy Jewess in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Many a little U. S. girl has felt sorry that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca...