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Gillet & Johnson, bell founders, had cast the great carillon in Croyden, England, to the order of Mr. Rockefeller, who designed it as a memorial to his mother, There is no tawdry arrangement for electrical ringing. The carilloneur must strike every note by a pull on the keyboard lever. Sweat poured from Mr. Breess's forehead as the seemingly effortless notes tripped out of the tower and careered away into the bright morning: "Abide with Me," Schuman's "Traumerei," "Hark, Hark, My Soul," "Song Without Words." He was proud for he played the greatest carillon in the world...
...hall-bedroom, went to sleep. He was awakened by a soft repeated, terrifying knocking on the door. Summoning all his courage, he flung it open. There was no one outside. He returned to bed. An interval of silence; the sound began again. Once more Chin Hin, with cold sweat starting from him, threw open the door; once more he was met by vacancy. He turned his key; almost instantly, the knocking was resumed. Chin Hin, deranged by terror, jumped out of the window...
...things? How many modern men and women can know love in this form ?" Counters Mrs. Russell: "Was love more delightful, then, in the old days when baths were unknown, when 'sweet breath' in a woman was so rare as to be sung by poets and the reek of stale sweat was barely stifled by a strong perfume? John Donne wrote verses to the flea he saw nestling in his lady's bosom. There is scarcely a fine gentleman today who could face the prospect of making love to one of the fine ladies of the past six or seven hundred...
...returns to the ring, Tunney will be his opponent, for Champion Dempsey envisages little difficulty in defeating the blushing young Marine. But there is another pugilist-one whose either hand is like a demijohn, whose chest protrudes as if he had fed on thunderbolts. This fighter (Harry Wills), with sweat in his face and a red rose in his buttonhole, was introduced to the Manhattan multitude before the Tunney-Gibbons fight began...
...situation unprecedented in U. S. open championships was resolved by officials, who ruled that another sweltering 18 holes must be played. Out they trudged, after cooling drinks and luncheon. People said: "Thin Legs cannot stand it. He will sweat and sicken. Here will count the beef of Fat Legs...