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...this rough-&-tumble by-play irritated Senator Costigan. He and his fellow-Harvardman Bronson Cutting constitute the Senate's two lone esthetes. It occurred to Senator Costigan that, having studied the problem for months, he or Senator La Follette might have been consulted when a substitute program was undertaken...
...cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than ten years' imprisonment. In the midst of the trial the wife of one of the engineers arose, addressed the crowd: "There should be only one lone criminal on trial here today. That is the wretched man whose desire for death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second...
...tousling of five Japanese monks by a gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon fire engines. When the towels were finally extinguished 1,000 Japanese held a mass meeting in the Japan Club, and Rear...
...health. What if his wife does fret because he spends too much on agricultural experiments? This is his fun. He speaks the homely language his neighbors all under stand. This week they were immensely proud of him. So were all other Texans. He was about to bring the Lone Star State its first Speakership. That was more than 29 other States could yet boast about...
...first in the charge. Riding down the Chinese front line they cut a swath into which Japanese infantry poured pell mell, yelling. General Ma's right flank held at first. Chinese cavalry tried to encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across...