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...road and from all the four corners of the earth, and in 1,000 voices, was money, money, money! We were living over a powder mine, and every minute brought a new sensation, brought a dozen of them, brought one hot after another...
...team of bowlegged French-Canadian skaters from Montreal cut the ice in the rink of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, into a fine powder. This way and that they swayed and slithered, passing the puck with flawless teamwork. A huge crowd of sportsmen, society dames, politicians, actors, editors, financiers, diplomats, discovered- as perhaps they had discovered before-that hockey is a pretty but not always a gentle game...
From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...paper of that day, commenting on this, continued: "Notwithstanding this warning, on the 19th, a band of Sophomores met two Freshmen, and began to 'haze' them, until one of the two drew a pistol loaded with powder, and fired it into the face of one of the Sophs. The latter then withdrew to their rooms, making a great noise, and threatning to annihilate the Freshmen. Next day the Faculty met, heard evidence on the subject, and decided to suspend eight of the Sophs...
...mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...