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...killed outright by a Puritan. The village is attacked by Indians and the love-distracted Wrestling accuses Lady Marigold of witchcraft. As she is about to be burned he picks her up in his arms, strides into the flames with her. In the Metropolitan's production the feat will not be difficult if, as now seems probable, big Lawrence Tibbett is Wrestling and chic Lucrezia Bori plays Lady Marigold...
Christopher Columbus performed the impossible feat of making an egg stand on one end by slightly cracking and flattening that end of the eggshell. Sheldon Whitehouse, by means equally simple and direct, un-cracked the Guatemalan joke...
...school in a valiant Old Boys' soccer match staged on the laws of the Bishop's residence, Fulham Palace. Soccering well the Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. scored three of his victorious team's eight goals. Score 8 to 4. Festivities followed in the Palace. A frequent feat of the Soccering Bishop: playing tennis with his friend Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
...Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique to fight in the defense of Paris, unsuccessfully. With soldiering in his blood, he went to the Far East, assisted at the French occupation of Formosa in 1885. Eight years later he performed the feat described in his book My March on Timbuktu. Starting down the left bank of the River Niger on Dec. 27. 1893, he marched and skirmished 813 kilometres (504 mi.) in 48 days, entered on Feb. 12, 1894 "The Town of Timbuktu, the Meeting Place of Camel and Canoe,"† Steady...
More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...