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...horses to run away. He sneezed in Washington and caused the driver of the auto to disjoint his neck. He sneezed during a rummy game, causing a fellow who was just about to rummy to jump off his chair and throw his cards away. On that sneeze Mr. Pilant tore out both his tonsils...
That race will go down in yachting history. Yankee crossed the starting line to windward but Rainbow crept past her on the first tack. A sudden puff of wind tore Yankee's Genoa jib. By the time she had replaced it, Rainbow had increased her lead. When the boats rounded the buoy 15 miles from the start, Rainbow was leading by 1 min. 34 sec. Coming back both set parachute spinnakers and Yankee began to gain. For 15 miles she inched up on Rainbow. A half mile from the finish, her bow was even with Rainbow's mast...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...spider swayed too close to a free foreclaw, was quickly caught and held helpless. Thereafter for a while the battle was even. Each a prisoner of the other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken...
Upstairs panic-stricken State functionaries tore about with flying coattails, locking the thin, white doors that were now the Cabinet's sole defense. Swinging rifle butts like battering rams, the invaders crashed down door after door, advancing slowly and methodically through the vast building and making up batches of hostages as they went. "This lot is to be shot first, if we are attacked. That lot next...