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...turned his face to the wall. "But I have a plan," murmured the Ibis at last. "We shall rent the walk of Plympton Street and cause to come forth a mighty geyser, that he who looks may wonder!" Lampy spat into the fire and then nodded his belled cap in glee...
...most telling political moves of the season, and its reception was a nine days' political wonder; to Hiram Johnson's Presidential ambitions it had more meaning than to William G. McAdoo's, because the proposal is generally considered a feather in Mr. Coolidge's cap, and Mr. Johnson must fight Mr. Coolidge in the Republican Convention...
...Crimson team, although defeated once by Andover, has shown its power in the last three games, all of which it has won easily, and a victory this afternoon is all that is needed to cap a successful season. In four victories, one tie, and one defeat, the 1927 team has scored 13 points to its opponents' 5, the best Freshman record for several years...
Blame for accidents can be laid upon a number of shoulders. In the first place, the miner himself is often responsible for disaster. When a man with a lighted lamp in his cap fills paper cartridges with black powder, it is obviously his own fault if he does not remove his lamp to a safe distance. Even more gruesome is the sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only...
...never wore an overcoat or a hat, except a coonskin cap in Winter...