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...will be a great favor to me.' So we had to follow after her, in our high-top boots, and there we sat, as imperturbable as we knew how to be, but with very heightened color, I am sure, and she insisted on our smoking, while she threw up the windows and drove before her the fluttering mosquitoes. She never alluded to the subject afterward, neither reported nor reproved us, for she wisely reasoned that the charm in all we were doing was the daredevil character of the performance, and that if it was treated as a very commonplace...
...Belgrade General MacArthur was the only foreign military expert invited to watch while a division of the Jugoslavian Army maneuvered in the mud, marched between lanes of peasants who threw grapes at the soldiers. At a banquet of generals General MacArthur joined hands with the others, did the national dance, called kolo, which consists of running around the table in one direction, then running around the table in the other. Then he made a speech...
...error made by Catcher Wilson of St. Louis in the second game. In the ninth inning, with two men on base, he caught a third strike on the bounce, threw to third base instead of first...
Near Wenatchee, Wash., Walter Griffith's truck, loaded with watermelons, skidded from the road, burst into flames. Quick-witted Walter Griffith grabbed his watermelons, threw them against the truck with might & main. The 23rd watermelon put out the fire...
...Westmont, N. J., Miss Grace Bowen. 25, New York actress, sat in the illegally parked automobile of her sister Mrs. Worthington Pfeiffer. Along came a policeman and handed Miss Bowen a summons. Miss Bowen tore up the summons, threw the pieces in the policeman's face, then slapped it. Over the head of a second policeman she broke a picture frame. The constable she bit. Her fine...