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...warden's darkened house kept up a blistering barrage into the cellhouse windows as the priest went to the building's very entrance and laid the charge to blast an entrance. The ignition battery did not work. Father O'Neil returned for another heavy load of dynamite, ran in, laid it, ran back. Danny Daniels was seen at the cellhouse window trying to shoot the priest just before the explosion shattered all remaining windows in the neighborhood, blew men's hats off and buried the cellhouse in a heavy pall of smoke. A company of militia...
...soup is perfect, but the editorial is faulty. You describe the farmers, "swinging their sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift...
...through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund...
Johnny Kolesar died instantly, his back riddled with a load of No. 4 shot. Joe Klementovich was taken to a hospital, apparently dying. He was ten years old. Helen Klementovich's wounds were less dangerous. Police soon seized Farmer Craig Hoffman, identified by Anna Kolesar as "the man in brown pants." He denied shooting the children. In his house was found a ten-gauge shot-gun.* Police, fearing a lynching, dispersed muttering crowds, locked up Farmer Craig, charged him with murder, assault with intent to kill, atrocious assault and battery...
...puzzled spectator might have asked, "Are Victrolas made out of tomatoes?" Not so the laboratory workers?the tomato procession comes every year and they pay no attention. Each farmer in the crowded thoroughfare, swings his sweating horses in an arc, drives his fruity load to the receiving platform of the Campbell Soup Co. across the way from the Victor plant...