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...hocus-pocus with the hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house...
...whirl and a dash around Boston. Take hundreds of taxis, pay hundreds of taxi-drivers. Lights, bad music, bad drinks, enthusiasm subsides. Dash around a little more and home...
...nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit to Felix's--dinner with the Housemaster tonight. The Class very dull, the Vagabond scribbling little notes on the cover of his notebook...
Track relics include the shoe worn by Wendell Baker '86, in setting a new world's record for the 440 yard dash, the she which broke and came off 155 yards from the finish...
...church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing...