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Finally the firemen admitted the rum ($45,000,000 worth) would have to burn itself out. The fire had gotten into the big vats below quay level, turned them into huge alcohol lamps. Watching goggle-eyed, several Londoners fell into the river...
...ridden over four times around the world in six-day bike races," declared Reggie McNamara, the "grand old man" of the sport who entered his ninety-fifth grind last night at the Garden, in an interview yesterday afternoon, "and it's gotten so that I feel better in a race than...
...contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
Last month Peasant Party Leader Nicholas Lupu charged that Skoda's agent, one Bruno Seltzski, had gotten the contract by lathering Rumanian Army officers and politicians with bribes. He charged too that Skoda had stirred up the whole war scare. As bribees he named Premier Alexander Vaida-Voevod's son and a nephew of the Finance Minister. This was still just Rumanian talk. Police had already searched Bruno Seltzski's house on the grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned...
That was not all. At 3 a. m. a carpenter had gotten out of bed and, as is his habit, began the day reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists...