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...then about-faced and once more set out for mid-stream. Once more the ice broke. This time, several hitherto unnoticed men appeared with a ladder and skidded it out to him. A second rescue was under way, while the gentlemen of the ladder jotted down, sentences in a notebook regarding its progress. This procedure, it was discovered, was one of a series of experiments put on by the Red Cross to gather data for a treatise...
...lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil's in that Peter," they would say. "Don't go near him." And on he would scribble, hunched like a great bear on a pile...
...treason to Germany, the State contended last week, for Cleveland's Roiderer to write down in a notebook while in Germany last spring what he saw of the brownshirt S. A. Storm Troops and black-jacketed S. S. Special Guard. Though Adolf Hitler has said a thousand times that both organizations are nonmilitary, Richard Roiderer's notebook jottings were classed as "military secrets" which he was suspected of intending to divulge to a foreign power...
...result to the State of Hauptmann's cross-examination was that the defendant admitted writing "boad" in a notebook for boat, a misspelling which occurs in one of the ransom notes, and confessed to two German crimes: Holding up two women and breaking & entering the home of the Mayor of Rackwitz...
...quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...