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...blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high speed. Elephant raging...
...Awakening from the dull phlegmatic sleep of centuries, America determined to take up arms against a more arrogant, more cruel foe than Kaiserism and break the shackles that enslaved a nation?the tyranny of intemperance, the despotism of drink." It was still as a Dry that he was retired from the Senate in 1923 by Edward Irving Edwards, Democrat, who claimed to be (and was) "as wet as the Atlantic Ocean...
...people of old Madrid were surprised at seeing how well soldiers marched in funeral procession. J discovered that during Weyler's sickness they were rehearsing a funeral march, expecting to make use of it any day-they used it, on the other hand, for Weyler's foe, Primo de Rivera. J. MENENDEZ...
...known to be heavier and rangier than any he has ever before put on the Charles. Coach White side has had his first boat make excellent time in trial rows, but tomorrow's race, the first real test of the season for the Crimson oarsmen, should afford them a foe worthy of their best...
...biggest tactical air maneuvers on the Pacific Coast. The problem: expulsion of an enemy entirely by aircraft. For three weeks the first provisional wing of the Army Air Corps-the same squadrons and men that would be immediately concentrated in event of real war-would fight its invisible foe by day, would transform Mather Field into a gigantic metal rookery at sundown...