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When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
This recrudescence of Wafd supremacy among the electorate again threw into jagged relief the ugly fact that Premier Ziwar has continued since 1924 at the head of the Egyptian Cabinet almost solely because he is acceptable to Britain, the unseen but mighty tweaker of Egyptian puppet strings...
...angry now that he could not speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking, as he sniffed the air, that whoever had last played on that side had made it stink fearfully of the kitchen. Young Wetzel threw down his racket. The match went to nobility by default...
...cook, intrigued, threw many a meat scrap. The eagle, unwary, flew farther and farther seaward?followed the Sulanierco 20 miles with ease, 10 more by settling down to earnest purposeful flapping, 10 more by resorting to tricks of volplaning and wind-catching, 10 more with every tendon of its great wings strained by the torturing, racking effort...
Tootell's greatest improvement came in his Senior year. His best mark up to that year was 158 feet, yet in his last year he threw consistently 175 to 185 feet; this last mark which he set at Bowdoin College is the college record. His improvement was also marked in his ability to stay in the circle with two or three turns. I have often seen him take three turns and still have from 12 to 18 inches to spare from the front of the circle...