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...reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison for preaching the gospel in Edinburgh...
DIVOTS-P. G. Wodehouse-Dorem ($2.50). The Oldest Member still sits by the first tee watching people drive off and remembering- remembering so voluminously that he has to attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging down less than ever. The sharp sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through...
Yesterday afternoon on the Freshman diamond the 1930 nine trounced a Huntington School nine, 17-1. So long did the Freshmen's assault drag out the game, that the contest was called off on account of darkness after the first half of the seventh inning...
Believing in music as a soothing method of beginning his vacation, the Vagabond will drag his weary body to Symphony Hall, in Boston, tonight, to hear another program, presented by Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra. Here he may hear two scores by American composers. Chadwick's Ballad. "Tam o'Shanter", and Sessions Symphony in E minor. The closing part of the program will comprise Strauss tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration", and the Dance of Salome from the opera, "Salome...
...cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing very little velocity to stay aloft, several gliders would be no great drag on a multi-motored ship, the chief problem lying in getting them off the ground at the start...