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Immediately there broke out a hullabaloo. Fighting with chairs, clubs, bottles, 300 Nationlist opponents of General Smuts drove his supporters to the wall and captured the platform, where they sang and danced to the sound of the tearing of British flags used to decorate the hall. Many bleeding faces bore evidence of the affray...
...victories and five losses last spring, the University nine completed one of its most successful seasons in recent years. Pennsylvania and Tufts were the only teams on the schedule which remained undefeated by Harvard. The Yale series was won in two straight games when Captain Isadore Zarakov '27 drove out a home run in the ninth inning of the second engagement...
...lights, feline debauchees parade on roads at night, killing birds and frightening motorists. Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car. Mrs. Hood, startled by the sparkling eyes, drove her car over the side of a bridge, injuring herself, demolishing...
...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
...winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...