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Then, suddenly, nine hours had passed like a distorted dream, and the wind-god raged moaning up the northeast coast toward Pensacola. No more would sport coats and plumed hats" stroll at Hialea Race track. It was gone. No more would dandies strut and women preen in Carl Fisher's fashionable Flamingo Hotel. It was wrecked. Five hundred bodies soaked in the streets, some wretchedly askew under logs, others stretched out peacefully by the Chamber of Commerce. Where had been one mammoth mansion sat a lone bathtub. And ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses...
...Mohammed in the lurch, at first. The indignant Koreish drove the Moslems out of Mecca into the hills one winter. But soon Allah was well-behaved and sharp-eared again. He revealed a splendid opening for an up-and-coming prophet at ancient, paradisaic Medina up the Red Sea coast. There, Jews were noxious, Arabs uneasy. After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira. No harm ensuing, he followed later in holy triumph on his long-lived she-camel, Al-Kaswa, whom he permitted to choose the site of his new abode, a good...
...vault the footlights in Richard Mansfield's theatre one afternoon and offer that gruff celebrity a play. Mansfield commissioned him. With the aid of Silk Goshen, his mother's Jewish impresario and second husband, he spent a hermit year in a fishing colony off the Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord destroyed his first play. Out of the same year, however, came a narrative poem of the sea, for which he received...
...best proof that Wu was holding his own came in the form of a telegram from Sun. He, having pondered well the strength of Wu and Chang, telegraphed Chang a 24-hour ultimatum to get out of Hupeh province and moved up like thunder from the coast with his troops...
Thirteenth Contract The longest contract airmail route yet (1,099 mi.) was about to start operating, between Seattle and Los Angeles. Trains take 63 hr. up or down this stretch of coast. Eight planes were in readiness to fly it, four each way daily, in 13¼ hr. Night flying was planned for the beginning of each trip, the planes setting out at 3:45 a. m., arriving at 5 p. m. with five stops* on the way: Portland, Medford, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield. When begun, it was to make the 13th operating contract route that has been instituted...