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They went about their business as ineptly as a gang of urchins playing cops & robbers. They asked a police sergeant to show them the Premier's private apartments. He refused. The young men got lost in the echoing hallways. A group of three or four other men appeared; the young officers fired in their general direction; the men fled. Some one heard a key turning in a keyhole. Part of the group stormed the door, broke it down, and came on the Prime Minister, a tiny, alert man of 75, and his daughter-in-law, holding a baby...
...first time in recent years, the two major parties in Massachusetts are led by able men with humane records showing ability and integrity. The Hurley-Curley-Coakley gang seems to be eliminated from the fight, leaving the way clear for a respectable Democrat, Roger Lowell Putnam, to carry their standard as candidate for Governor. He is opposing Governor Leverett Saltonstall, whose two terms as the state's Chief Executive have been successful in cleaning up after James M. Curley and Co., in giving the state a solid financial backing, and restoring the morale of its public servants. Furthermore, the Governor...
...gang's all here, Round-headed, pop-eyed little birds blinking at you over the edge of the nest, or pulling a worm two ways, snoring squirrels raising their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling...
...weeks with an infection. Mallett bolstered an already strong tackle squad, but another addition to the gang won't bring tears to Harlow's eyes. Steve will certainly be ready physically for the Cadets, and he too may see some action...
...Seattle, four women drive garbage trucks, and a whole female railroad-track gang was working in the Bremerton Navy Yard across Puget Sound...