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...Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
Author Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, fat, placid, writes with great care and with such involved, Henry-Jamesian qualification that he sometimes irritates. But he always manages to spin a compelling yarn. A Pennsylvania "Dutchman" (German), he was left some money at 21, began to write because he helped a woman novelist read her proof, disliked what he read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal...
After a full week of Olympic parliamentary games, Messieurs les Deputès abruptly quieted down to the Young Plan, passed it by the overwhelming vote of 530 to 55 in a comparatively placid session, sent the Plan to the Senate where it is sure to pass...
...Placid inaction by an Indian native soldier, after his British officer has commanded him to act, is of course the death-punishable crime of mutiny...
...number of years back while holding down my first job as a ship's officer, on a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...