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...those Americans who have diminished interest in the ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome of a pre-arranged contest. Rarely in an era of corner-pools and Wall Street cabals can anything but a football game present Chance unhandcuffed...
...list of cases includes 12 on domestic relations, ten on wage claims, eight on automobile accidents, eight on real estate claims, six landlord and tenant cases and four will cases. Other miscellaneous cases were a suit against a former tenant who smeared creolin all over the wall of her apartment when forced to leave, and a suit by a woman who fell in a badly lighted stairway, for whom the Legal Aid Bureau...
...looked like the gray crinkled hide of an elephant. At night it was an arabesque pattern of vermilion, magenta, citron. Then the top of the wall would curl like a malevolent phosphorus wave. With a crash as of metallic surf it would topple, advance, cool, form another wall. For some reason the lava moved more swiftly at night. Even from Messina, at the northern tip of Sicily, it could be seen slipping down Etna, like a tiny blazing snake...
...there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly. Many were crazed, stupefied by the fumes. Three, a grandfather, a father and a son. suddenly broke away, rushed into their house. Streams of lava trickled on all sides barring exit. Agonized onlookers saw them climb to the roof, stare stupidly at the Wall. The Wall broke. The three peasants, dead, were held fast and straight by the lava which coiled and recoiled about their knees. The lava slid up to their shoulders, and above their heads...
Because President Irigoyen, during his previous term (1916-22), gave aid and comfort to numerous striking unions, his present attitude was hailed, last week, in the Bolsa de Comerxia or "Wall Street" of Buenos Aires as of favorable omen...