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...Adopted an emergency House resolution to appropriate $500,000 for the Government Printing Office to save the Congressional Record and all other Congressional printing from sudden suspension...
Dining and drinking in Sydney restaurants, moneyed New South Walesmen leaped up with loud hurrahs last week at sudden news that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, had forced out of office their notorious State Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating more than $3,500,000 of interest due on the State debt...
...loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared not let go. Struggling...
...Fire!" The day had been warm, sunny, peaceful. Just before sunset Tokyo was terrified by the sudden dashing through her streets of four or five motorcars (one a commandeered taxicab) from which uniformed Japanese petty officers and cadets flung bundles of leaflets and hurled bombs...
...next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from...