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...small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long-tusked elephants die, she accepts all hardships calmly and only squeals once, when she topples over a precipice and is barely saved by a ragged rope. The final test of her imperturbability comes when she is kidnapped by a yodeling athlete in a loin cloth who swings her up to his nest at the top of a tree and turns out to be Tarzan of the Apes...
...they put a rope round her neck and hauled her down to make room for the New York Life Insurance Building, while a group of mourners including Elder Statesman Elihu Root and the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard stood bareheaded in the rain. Sentimentalists were comforted by an announcement from the insurance company that Diana would not leave New York. She would be presented to New York University as soon as $65,000 was raised to build a proper tower for her to stand on. That was seven years ago. Elder Statesman Root took charge of the building fund, Diana...
...done well with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...
...Vagabond last night was roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...
...have an instinct for avoiding any direct collisions, escaped but other members of the squad sustained an injury of some kind. In the second tilt, however, the Harvard players were set for the onslaught and were careful not to parade down the ice after the fashion of light rope walkers. Practically no injuries took place in the second game...