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...corresponding increase in Margery's weight being observed when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...
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...globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards, bearded ladies, dengue fever, betel-chewing babus and-most resembling the structure of the book-live eel...
...Eel-hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with...
Westward, the sun shone on a redhaired, eel-hipped runagate, Grange by name. He, all-American halfback of last season, running and dodging with fabulous agility, scored five of the six touchdowns that Illinois piled up against Michigan for its 39 to 14 victory. He ran through a broken field like a thoroughbred through a bog, supported always by superb interference. (The week previous Grange played against Butler College for 16 minutes, scored 12 points...