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...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
...from Palestine. Both San Francisco and Manhattan have cheered his playing. After hearing him do the solo parts in Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" under Conductor Paul Paray of the famed Lamoureux orchestra in his first Paris concert, Paris critics said: "Not since the- child Mozart, seated on a pile of music on a piano stool...
...shown a picture of your brother's nose, and we were instructed to smash that nose every time we got near it." "But there were bits of flesh torn from the other parts of his body," I said. "That was--(naming the Princeton player) he always bites under the pile." My brother had to have a part of a rib transplanted before he was able to breathe through his nose again. When these Princeton football players told me this, I telegraphed Jim to ask him what I should do. He never answered, but I went back to prep school...
...school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing at a festival and made the first payment on the site of her present Bethune-Cookman College, at that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room. In 1905 the school was chartered. In 1914 Mrs. Bethune bought a farm to "teach the girls sense," and to raise vegetables for the table. By 1918 people had given enough money to build an auditorium. Later Governor Catts of Florida and Vice...