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...persons she took at a gulp, and before midday she had finished off more than half the men of the Fiana. She swallowed the son of the King of Greece, and the son of the Fiana's captain, Finn Mac Cool. Thereupon that hero gave a sudden rush, gripped the monster by one of her joints, and flipped her over on her back...
...Five years ago the Akron was approaching the mooring mast at Camp Kearney near San Diego, Calif, when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...
Within the hour prior to his sudden death in a committee room in Ohio's State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory...
...carpenter by trade and inclination, he found plenty to do in his own neighborhood, could not conceive why his more restless brothers wanted to leave home. When Margery Lee, the local schoolmistress, came to board and his brother Jeff courted her with signal unsuccess, Luke understood Jeff's sudden departure. But Luke was pretty sure nothing could change him. Then he fell in love with Margery himself. She hated the country, was consumed with metropolitan ambitions, swore she would some day see her name in Broadway lights. But when she married Luke that complicated her singleminded...
...fashioned but par for its type. Without Warning is not recommendable to those who are made uncomfortable by exploding hand grenades, falling crates, sudden darkness...