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...nine the next morning balloting began. Excitement ran high. The 1.800 delegates in their eagerness to vote broke through the rope that held them back. Policemen and firemen were summoned to restore order. At eight in the evening the polls closed. At eleven the count was not completed and the convention adjourned till the following day at ten a.m. The tellers were closeted counting the ballots till the early hours of the morning. Gradually news leaked out that Mrs. Cook was ahead...
...were sailing under a captain who announced the opinion that icebergs were good for a ship, and who thereupon steered his vessel for the nearest berg, what would they do? Would they argue that the important thing was to teach him a jolly good lesson-give the old man rope to hang himself, and so on, and let the ship drive on? Or would they do everything in their power to block him and incidentally save the ship ? "Mayor Hylan is the captain. And New York City the ship...
...Association voted that rope climbing be added unofficially to the events in dual meets this winter, taking the place of club swinging, which has been dropped. The scoring results in the rope climbing event will not count in the final total...
...Rope" a novel by Holwarthy Hall has recently been published by Dodd. Mead and Company...
...been inclined to use Alexander's method of untying a knot, caring little whether he smote a little to the right or left of the true center as long as the entanglement was loosened. Perhaps the two-edged Wish sword is dulled from smiting; or perhaps the rope today is stronger than usual...