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...heels came Rita, who had deserted Appleby in life, but who now threw herself on the largest piece of his corpse. Following her came a white-bearded figure, who, placing his hand on her shoulder, whispered, "Get thee to a nunnery...
Finally as the old Harvard cheer with nine Hollisheimer on the end rent the air, forward stepped the President of the University who threw his doctor's robe over something of what had been Appleby to signify that-the last of the Hollisheimer had attained his degree...
...skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes for Oscar Underwood...
...policemen in turn had their grievances against Talker Flockhart. Frequently they had to carry him to the stationhouse. A diminutive man, he could not keep pace with them. In the station-house he would invariably transfix the officers with his strange eyes, and recite Scriptures to them. Often they threw him out of their presence; and that hurt those Scotsmen dreadfully. Manhandling the wight was like tearing a page from the Bible...
...commons and likewise a state of war between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons was on the ground floor of Massachusetts, and the pig stys were under the windows, if the students did not like the dinner, they threw it at the steward. Nevertheless, they hung together. In 1876 the board at Memorial Hall was about $3.90 a week, quite as good and of greater variety than the ordinary students' table nowadays...