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...history of the Parsimonious Freshman's year is Too Lugubrious to mention. Suffice it to say that by the end of the year the Light began to Dawn upon him. Clutching his pencil and paper he began to calculate the profits and losses of his False Economy, and discovered the following...
...shake like huge dark fans over Saratoga's Broadway. Disturbed by lights that burned all night, roused by bookmakers who on the street below kept up a shrill chatter until long after midnight, the birds chattered also, lapsed into nervous silence with the rest of the town, toward dawn...
...Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs moved to a 4-ft. cement culvert that drains rainwater from the Palisades slopes into the Hudson...
...Balloonists Anderson and Stevens, dashed into the still-settling debris, speedily dragged out all the buried men, found none injured. The gondola, too, survived safely, but the bag, ripped, tumbled, knotted, was badly damaged. As the crowd on the rim of the bowl filtered away in the dawn, the camp gloomily began to pick up the pieces of one more false start into outer space...
...window. The garrison, equipped now with trench mortars and machine guns, blazed away furiously. Nobody hit anything, except for one Chinese coolie who stepped fatally into the way of a trench mortar shell that fell short. After a while the steel train backed sulkily off again. Twice more, at dawn and at 7:40 a. m., the train lunged at Peiping, blasting away with a 3-in. gun, once getting through the railway tunnel into the Tartar City before it went backing & filling out of sight...