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...minutes. Mrs. Cyrus Jr., or her husband, paid $7,037 for the ride. Mrs. McCormick, the only passenger, traveled with a full train crew. She tipped the Pullman conductor $50, the porter $30, a passenger agent $50. And that was all there was to that, except that a lone lady seldom hires a special train, as she would a taxicab, and the newspapers simply had to tell about it. There must be some mysterious attraction in Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other sensation...
...Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures forth, a scimitar flashes or a crudely cast bullet dumdums into his flesh. But Syria is far from Europe, farther from...
These nobly befuddled Poles, having continued their celebration and refused to be ejected for almost a month, alleged with great presence of mind last week that their sortie had been provoked by a lone Lithuanian private, who had wandered into Poland and been found with dumdum bullets in his pocket...
...allowed the Purple sluggers no hits, retiring them in one-two-three order in the last half of the eighth inning. The Sophomore's last start was against today's invaders, when he did not allow a bit for five innings. In the sixth he was touched for a lone bingle, and in the seventh he was removed after walking three men and allowing another to hit safely...
...City College Student," runs the story, "presents in this issue a rating of the professors of the College. A group of students who are qualified by their lone similarity with many members of the Faculty have undertaken the task, and the result is given here in the hope that the grading may prove stimulating and salutarily shocking...