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...what one noble journal described as "the most vitriolic indictment ever hurled at any student body" and no one paid any attention to us except the International and Associated Press Associations. We created a really gigantic disturbance over the unkempt and disarrayed student, and after all the smoke and flame cleared away, there stood the same student, looking, if anything, a little more the worse for wear than usual. Students have a disturbing way of accepting editorials as surly Monday morning expressions of Saturday night gaiety, of reading them and of going on their way unmoved. If only they could...
...Charleston, W. Va., Governor William Gustavus Conley opened the door of the Executive Mansion's furnace, was greeted by a deafening explosion, burned about the face and arms by a jet of flame, struck down by the flying 100-lb. door...
...enough light enters the old windows to make it adequate for a good examination room. The janitor will not allow people to wander over the building because he fears they may be careless enough to let some stray cigarette ash fall on her floors and set her in flame, but a moment of grace is granted for viewing her dusty roots. In the heat of the old basement one discovers the remains of the old laundry wringers, now rusty with age. There are stacks of chairs which once were the thrones of exuberant Harvard...
...Jinny Wilmot, an attractively odd-looking Bright Young Person of the time. One night they go too far by roughing up a Bishop, who is shot in the scuffle. They flee to the country for their lives. Jinny leads them to the house of one Colpoys, an erstwhile flame of hers, lately suspected of having forsworn his wild ways and turned Quaker. Sure enough, he has. He will not even defend himself when angry Jinny sets de Grammont on him to provoke him into a fight. But, lightweight that he may be. de Grammont is a perfect gentleman, sees that...
...flame of anger swept through Albion and neighboring communities. Fuel was added by report of Andy's previously attacking a child, and a constable. State police had to guard the bears in their cage at Industry while the Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...