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...Manhattan, playing pinochle, one Frank Frankenthal, night watchman, picked up his cards for a hand; saw five aces, smiled; six aces, scowled; seven aces, gasped; eight aces, leaped from his chair, whooped, gasped, fell unconscious, died...
Praying Curve. A certain track runs along such a treacherous precipice in the Rocky Mountains that, every time the train crawls along that stretch, passengers, trainmen and engineers utter what prayers are in them. The watchman of this section is a romantically minded youth who writes letters to a young lady under another man's name. One day the young lady ascends the Rockies to visit her correspondent and supposed lover. She is so chagrined at finding the wrong man that the hero has to save the train from being wrecked before the ending can become happy. On the whole...
...executioner a job on you." Robert Elliott received the Negro, adjusted electrodes in the slit trouser leg, saw the straps buckled, turned on the current. The Negro twitched furiously for a moment, then sat quite still. Two more Negroes, condemned with the first for the murder of a watchman during a robbery, and betrayed by him to the police, followed. His day's work done, Robert Elliott went...
Politically, Mr. Curtis is a man of the party was their faithful watchman. He was an indifferent speaker. He is no orator today; seldom does he speak from the floor. It is in the party caucuses, in the committee rooms, in the cloakrooms that he patches up troubles, puts through legislation. His friends are many; his personality vexes few; the public is not conscious...
...night watchman of the Brock Building first discovered the loss when he made a careful examination of the store after his suspicions had been aroused by men lurking near an automobile behind the building. If he had not shouted at them, the culprits would perhaps have been captured on the spot...