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Item: Mr. Joe Blevitch of the class of '66, while returning early Saturday morning from a G. A. R. celebration, came into accidental contact with the iron gate of James Smith Hall. Sergeant O'Malley of the Cambridge Mounted Police, suspecting an attempt to crash the gate, fired three shots at him and left him for dead...
...indescribable panic) for the simple reason that rooms above the ground, level are fairly complete anti-gas chambers, provided that no fires are lit to draw air into them. The destructive capacity of a gas shell or bomb is insignificant. It will be high explosives, which cause houses to crash, that will apparently supply the chief danger to the cities and towns in the next war. Moreover, to get an effective concentration of gas in cities behind the firing lines, an enormous concentration of aircraft, supplying a highly vulnerable target, would be necessary...
...making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well as Rotarian, eccentric as well as honest. A terse, explosive talker. When he is old, give him a struggle to keep his winnings, a nervous breakdown...
...about to make his exit from the former setting, took a step into the steam, trod upon emptiness, plunged down 25 feet to the mouldy basement of the Metropolitan through a trap which had just been opened to receive scenery. Stagehands, mechanics, saw Taucher's 200-pound shape crash to the stone floor; hurried to his aid as he incredibly rose to his feet. Supported by six strong men, suffering from a broken finger, swollen wrists, many bruises, he shouted for his sword, staggered up the iron steps and again into the circle of steam, sang with great beauty...
...Crash...