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...captain held up a broken mirror as a periscope. The decks were deserted. One by one, the trapped men hauled themselves up to the deck. The captain raced to the wheelhouse and found the wheel lashed. The crew searched the ship. Everything that could be moved-the cargo, the crew's razors, even the ship's bill of health-had been taken by the vanished pirates. Only a chart, with the Combinatie's position marked on it, had been left. Cornelius' overworked diesel engine was wheezing at the point of death. The captain ordered a jury...
Sulphur & Holy Water. While some of the guests went outside to see the newcomer's coach, which shone like a mirror and was drawn by a horse with flaming eyes, the stranger danced with Blanche, who trembled as he whispered: "How pretty you are!" Then they passed close to the Moreaus' two-year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished...
...tabloid Los Angeles Mirror and its morning sister the Times like nothing better than a free-swinging Hollywood brawl. Last week the papers got just what they wanted; across Page One the Mirror splashed the headline: BRAWL OVER MARION DAVIES. What was even better, they had a clean beat. The Times and Mirror were tipped off by none other than a friend of onetime Cinemactress Marion Davies herself. Rival Hearst-papers hushed up the story because one of the brawlers was the chain's publisher, William R. Hearst...
Fraternity values as well as secret society values are strong at Yale; if an object is "shoe" it is desirable, if it is "black shoe" or "non-shoe" it is to be shunned. Even more than the Houses, the Yale Colleges mirror prevailing undergraduate prejudices; Calhoun, the "shoeiest" one, is flooded with applicants, while Jonathan Edwards, Trumbull, and Saybrook are ignored by freshmen. An organization with a black shoe reputation has an uphill fight to stay alive...
...moves about. On the pulpit, Billy rests two black leather books. One is a notebook containing a typed outline of tonight's sermon, the other a Bible. The outline Billy never mentions but fleetingly consults; though each new sermon is rehearsed before a mirror, Graham's delivery is always convincingly ad lib. The Bible Billy mentions constantly: "The Bible says . . . Now don't get mad at me. Billy Graham didn't say it. The Bible says it." (The word "Bible" rolls up from Billy's diaphragm and out over the audience like a thunderclap...