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...remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and marched afoot along Woodward Ave. Brass bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement. The Maine. Almost 30 years ago, in theatres, in parks, in fairgrounds a thousand brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought...
...foam. Suddenly the atmosphere vibrated to the staccato dots and dashes of radio-Admiral Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose...
Scholar, lawyer, publicist, Anton Smetona threw his very soul into a fight for Lithuania against the Russian autocracy. But, hounded by Tsarist secret police, branded by many as a conspirator, blackened as an opportunist, he stood no chance against the arrayed might of Imperial Russia?not until...
...their cells at night and then I let them out in the jailyard to get air. The boys can fish in the river if they feel like it, or sometimes they play pinochle or baseball. . . . Once the boys sat up on the front porch of the jail, but they threw too many cigaret stumps* about, so my wife made them stay in the yard. Then they went up on the porch of a neigh bor to sit, but I soon stopped that and told them they must stay around the jailyard. None of them has ever made an attempt...
Armour was a few strokes behind through the early rounds. On the 524 yard 13th on his final round he put a brassie on the green and holed the putt for a 3. This eagle threw him ahead of the field, and as he finished in careful figures, won the title. Leo Diegel and Billy Burke, Greenwich, Conn., broke the course record with 68, five under par. The first Canadian to finish was Andy Kay, Lambton. eleventh...