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Having already condemned many a farm, torn down a county seat, reinterred 2,850 corpses, last week Union Electric Light & Power Co. found itself involved in a seven-figure lawsuit. The wealthy Snyder brothers of Kansas City - Robert, Leroy and Kenneth - wanted $1,000,000 in damages because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from...
...stage productions of "Charles and Mary" will be given on the evenings of December 16, 17, and 18, at 8.20 o'clock. The play, which portrays the tragedy of Charles Lamb's life, torn between devotion for his sister and for a neighbor, Hester Savory, is being directed by Edward Massey '15, a former student of the 47 Workshop. Mr. Massey has coached the Club in three recent plays, and finds, in this play of Joan Temple's abundant opportunity for picturesque scenery and period costumes, as well as for dramatic moments, and character portrayals of Lamb's literary contemporaries...
That he was really unhappy-genuinely torn in soul and spirit-Free Trader Runciman proved by his own speech during the otherwise perfunctory debate on his bill. As a friend said: "Poor old Walter supplied most of the arguments why his bill should not be passed...
...whole was a darkness over all country, and lasted un the earth until the ninth til three in the after hour. noon, us the sun was And the sun was in eclipse. And the darkened, and the veil curtain before the sanc of the temple was rent tuary was torn in two. in the midst. Then Jesus gave a loud And when Jesus had cry, and said, cried with a loud voice, "Father, I intrust my he said, Father, into thy Spirit to your hands!" hands I commend my With these words he spirit: and having said expired. thus...
...then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this mistreatment does not discourage little Cooper. Presently he is back, muttering, "Aw gee!" with sniveling, or sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring in a torn bathrobe, defeats what is supposed to be a first-class boxer in a struggle which will seem a little absurd to anyone who has ever seen a prizefight. After the fight, he has heart-failure; little Cooper's underlip comes out again...