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...bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves. The audience had been appreciative, engrossed, deeply stirred; but they did not drag her coach home to the hotel...
Simultaneously a raging crowd of Fascists were paying no attention to the sex or age of his would-be assassin. As a policeman tried to drag her to safety, sharp fingernails clawed at her neck, her arms. The mob was on the point of ending her life by crunching slimy means...
...them abundantly, but if they are to use them in a manner which could not possibly exert practical influence upon any jury, any Legislature, any public assembly or board of directors, let some new name be invented for such lightsome exercise. After all, it is a bit laughable to drag the laws of argumentation into the making only of laughter. Better the smile alone, without implied insult to logic...
...Court might be amicably considered. Sir Austen called attention to the fact that this proposal is designed to speed up action by the Court nations upon the U. S. reservations, since if the whole matter should be thrashed out by diplomatic notes among the 55 nations concerned, it might drag on for years (see THE CONGRESS...
...engineer of Thomas Alva Edison, suggested that all steamships carry kites for rescue work in seas too heavy for lifeboats and Lyle (rope-shooting) guns. The kite could be flown over the distressed ship, line, rope and finally a heavy cable being attached to its string. The cable would drag in the water, be towed to its destination. Then the breeches buoy could be used...