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...July 2 the baton of Conductor Serafin of the Opera, Buenos Aires, commenced to tap, to sweep in great circles, to dip, slither, crash. For two months not Ted Lewis' favorite wand exceeded it in frenzy. Then on Aug. 31 "A cabado !" (perfect, complete!), cried Serafin. "Delicioso," cooed the senoritas. "Bravo! Bien!" throated generous caballeros...
...herself at the center of consciousness of a scholarly professor who is deeply agitated by what seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone...
...forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid a crash with a car full of cinematographers...
What was the interest in your announcement in the issue of July 20, Page 1, that Jervis, bodyguard of the President, fell into an elevator shaft and dropped five feet with a crash without the information that the President was following close behind him and was warned of the danger...
...crash in the Berlin stockmarket has been featured very little in the press, although U. S. investors who blithely bought German shares at recent exalted prices are ruefully aware...