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...they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle, a man's voice saying: "Don't tie his hands too tight." She heard her husband cry: "They're putting me overboard!" Looking out. she saw him fall into the water. She threw him an air-cushion, which one of the pirates retrieved. Then the two men put her into their canoe. They paddled for a long time, back across the Sound, she believed. One of them tried to attack her. Finally they put her in the anchored Bo Peep, with several blankets...
...Cape Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...
...life of me I don't see how you can cure this lack of confidence but, like the mumps, it must work itself out. Last week I asked a banker to loan me $6,000 to be applied on the building of a new home. The banker threw up his hands and said: 'Oh, Senator, we can't make any loans at present. While we are sound, we must remain in a liquid condition...
...people to attend, but because of purses too slim to pay for nursing services, and because of too many nurses. The average private nurse works less than eight months a year. Her average income for the whole year is about $1,800. or $35 weekly. Nonetheless, the nursing schools threw into the surfeited market 20,000 girls last June, four times the number of young doctors graduated from the medical schools at the same time...
...hearse. The mourners returned cheerful, contented looks. Policeman Hart, puzzled, scratched his head, remembered cheerful, contented looks on the faces of other mourners following other hearses that had passed through Hammond that day. Then Policeman Hart remembered there was no cemetery in Indiana Harbor. After the funeral he ran, threw open the hearse door, found inside many cases of liquor...