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...months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
Around the turn, into the stretch they swept, Zev gaining, when Epinard got free, strode out past Zev. The field looked his to run away with. Then, lo around the pack and out of it galloped Wise Counsellor. Faster and faster he sped, past Baffling, past Zev, past Epinard, past the finish, a winner by three-quarters of the length of his body. Ladkin, spurting brilliantly, was home behind the game French horse...
...Finland's turn again. First Willie Ritola spurned the pack of 3,000-metre steeplechasers and set his second world's record. Katz, his countryman, followed close...
...events. One of those championships went to Harvard, when Watters, who has yet to be beaten in the half-mile, kept his record clean by defeating Helffrich of Penn State, the defending champion, in a whirlwind 880-yards run. Watters stepped out and led the pack, composed of the ten foremost collegiate halfmilers of the country, from the starting gun to the tape, winning by a full five yards...
...content with overworking this time-worn device, the authors go on to pack their scenes with soul-tearing and ear-splitting melodrama which at times verges on farce. Indeed it seemed to us that this play should not have been chosen, especially for the limited scope of a stock company...