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...scaring Henry McBride, he would have been a gibbering maniac long ago. As critic for the New York Sun, he had exposed himself to all of it, and had vehemently defended most of it. But last week even Henry McBride was baffled. "These sculptures," he wrote, "are the queerest that have ever come to us from abroad with such high recommendations...
Then, rounding an icy curve, he slipped, and landed sprawling on his face. Barelegged rivals breezed by, among them Bob Karnes of Kansas U. Near the finish line, Karnes missed a turn, and that finished him. The cause of his lapse: snowblindness. The winner of the queerest cross-country championship on record: 28-year-old Jack Milne of the University of North Carolina. His time-20:41.1-was a new Michigan course record. Said he: "I didn't deserve...
Practicing tankmen are persuaded to keep their distance; the Ministry of Agriculture cancels an order to plow the pipits' particular field; village parishioners sing a lady poet's uproarious anthem in praise of the birds. Menace is supplied by practitioners of the queerest racket yet to break into the movies: egg stealing. The local colonel (retired) bumbles out the movie's "message," to the general effect that Englishmen, funny as they appear about it, are lovers of nature and of fair play, and that, in a sense, the tawny pipits are what England is fighting...
...things about Pierian immediately commend themselves to the attention: it is the oldest continuing orchestra in the Western Hemisphere, and it has the queerest name of any band anywhere on earth...
...race was close, it was also demonstrably one of the bitterest. But even more clearly it was one of the queerest. Item: the youngest candidate in history was running against one of the oldest. Item: for the first time, one of the candidates had already had three terms and wanted a fourth. Item: the P.A.C., the group making the biggest organized effort to elect the Democratic candidate, did not even belong to the Democratic Party. Item: the G.O.P. candidate not only didn't encourage foofaraw, bands, parades and demonstrations, but deliberately discouraged it. Item: one of the main campaign...