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...greatest city. A reformer by inclination, he is no fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...
...first set 12-10; the second (during which an awning of the clubhouse caught fire), 8-6. Vines, whose forehand drive is now the fastest in amateur U. S. tennis, pulled up to win the next set after Doeg had led 3-1. Doeg had tried playing soft shots at Vines, only to find that Vines, standing sideways to the net and timing his returns carefully, had learned how to handle them. In the fourth set, he was pounding the ball again. Presently Doeg was within two points of the match-4-5 and 0-30 on Vines...
...slow, soft breathing of 250 infirm old men and women asleep one night last week in the Pittsburgh dormitories of the Little Sisters of the Poor suddenly broke off into gags, coughs, smoke-stifled cries. Fire billowed up through the peaked roof of the Catholic home. Its glare lighted wrinkled faces twisted with fear and despair. Crippled old men thumped their canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with...
...summer wore on, on wore the sorrow of the Eastern soft coal industry...
Near Missouri Valley, Iowa, two speedy motorists failed to notice the "Bridge Out" sign on the Boyer River. Their car leaped 70 feet across the water, landed them unhurt in soft...