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Like Napoleon, Major General Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall is associated with the fact that when a piece of artillery hits a soldier it automatically eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded...
...over 250,000 population increase since 1920. No other city had been blessed by the gods like Miami, where millionaires dawdled in blue plashing wavelets beneath azure heavens; where the nation's "400" golfed with royalty until tired, then attended the races for relaxation; where even a mere key lying three miles off the mainland was bought up by men like Carl Fisher (Prestolite) and Harvey Firestone (Akron tireman), transformed into a palmettoed Eden connected with Miami proper by a $1,000,000 causeway over Biscayne Bay. People of the "Magic City" boasted that its indolent sun-kissed shores...
Obviously, Miami was in the "dangerous semi-circle." Key West received the "navigable semi-circle," therefore was damaged inconsiderably. After striking Miami from the northeast, the hurricane made a sort of quarter-turn on its heel, proceeded northwesterly over the Gulf after passing out to sea near Tampa...
...delighted when John returned to New York to find himself the father of such a youth. There was something princely in the way he posed, astride an otherwise unmanageable black stallion, for Sculptor St. George; in the calmness with which he retrieved and accepted the handkerchief and door key dropped at his feet by his first woman, a reigning and inaccessible beauty...
...phonograph records, including a choral effect obtained by playing many records into one, are well known and remarkable. Sympathetic vibration has been another of his studies-finding the note that will make a dog howl, a small object tremble. He has propounded the theory that sympathetic vibration is the key to the mystery of how news travels with great rapidity over long distances among primitive tribes...