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Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore down the creek bed. Houses were knocked topsy-turvy by great boulders, signals were cracked from their bases. The sided train was lifted from the tracks, its freight cars hurled in all directions, its locomotive smashed sidelong into a huge rock. Tracks were flung about, the roadbed scooped hollow. At the foot of the canyon motor cars were submerged. The leaping waters enveloped a service station and everybody near...
...rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock Horse Show. Republican Bacon's wife won two ribbons for table decorations at the Westbury Flower Show. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month...
...first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main office, Captain Van Dulken privately told his passengers that they would have to disembark either at Boulogne or Southampton. The news was quietly received...
...Macdonald), is trying to persuade fresh, serious Claire Windrew (Sally Bates) to break her engagement and marry him. Hilliard & Dale proceed to the hilarious business of disrupting the household, insulting everybody with epigrams. Particularly do they insult stodgy Mrs. Windrew (Charlotte Granville). Mary Hilliard rifles her liquor cabinet ("White Rock! My favorite drink!"). She picks her perennial roses ("It'll be next year before you know it"). She breaks up her jigsaw puzzle. To make Mrs. Windrew like Philip she invents for him a father who was killed at the aristocratic pastime of foxhunting...