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...yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal Walt Whitman...
...Life. Her will was filed last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin. In case of simultaneous death, then such property to go to my brother, Augustin Duncan...
Eight years later Father William died. In the hands of executors he left a sealed envelope. It was solemnly torn open. Inside was the name of Brother Bramwell, nominated General of the world-wide tambourine Army in dynastic succession to Father William...
...their first innings of the third match, England had 417 and Australia 397. When Australia had completed its second inning, the tourists went in to bat on a wicket that after a rain and five days of play was ridged and torn so that it favored the bowlers; it did not seem possible that the English batsmen would be able to reach 332 runs to win. Jack Hobbs gave the visitors their start; shortly after the interval for tea, he was bowled out with 49; Herbert Sutcliffe continued with Jardine and the day's play ended with nine wickets...
...yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth...