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...such meeting, a strange, fierce shout rang in the darkness. The invaders who heard the shout dropped to the ground, saw a pillbox on the skyline. The voice called again; it was no longer fierce, but high-pitched, panic-stricken...
...William Hyde Wollaston (discoverer of the elements palladium and rhodium), a silent, austere recluse, once had a visitor who asked to see his laboratory. Wollaston rang for his butler, had his "laboratory" wheeled in on a tea tray...
...Satevepost's cover for May 29, one William B. Sommerville of Lawrence, Kans. saw something that rang faint bells in his memory. What he saw was a lordly, rotund lady riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...
...chickens we 'pop' them into cans. Perhaps you have heard of Wendell Willkie. He is a friendly man. Some time ago the Salvation Army captain asked my husband to collect some salvage at the home of Mrs. Wilk, mother-in-law of Willkie. That evening my husband rang the doorbell. Mr. Willkie answered it. He is very friendly. He was visiting there...
...last evening of the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration [in] 1936 . . . Dr. Koussevitzky played his special arrangement of 'Fair Harvard.' ... I had come all the way from Japan to attend, and the inspiration . . . can never fade. . . . The last verse, with the Symphony Orchestra and the Tercentenary Chorus . . . rang out like an exultant march, symbolizing the irresistible and inevitable triumph of American youth crashing through all obstacles to victory...