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...Lawrence sees in "Bottom Dogs" savage America conquered and subdued as the expense of the instinctive, and intuitive sympathy of the human soul . . . the collapse of the flow of spontaneous warmth between a man and his fellows. No one could read this book without having the realization flash across his mind that all is not well in this nation of Prohibition and Listerine advertisements...
...blindly through the pea-soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...
...stepped into a tobacco store to buy and light a cigar. The store's owner had ignorantly connected a small 6-volt electric cigar-lighter to a high-powered city current. Schall put his face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...
...what looked like an offside play, Giddens took the puck from Wood near the blue line and, cleverly eluding an opposing defender, flipped in into the right corner of the net. It was an outstanding piece of work by Harvard's Canadian flash, but it put an end to a game of what was for the most part uninteresting hockey...
Some of the Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...