Word: whirligigs
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...upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow...
Fiction is represented by a further installment of Henry James' absorbing serial, The Old Things; a short story of Alabama life, The Price of a Cow, by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bellamy, and The Whirligig of Fortune, an incident of the French Commune, by T. Russell Sullivan...
Harvard's Plucky Fight.Straight up the field without once losing the ball, Harvard rushed it to Yale's 15-yard line. They used the wedge and the "whirligig" constantly, and gained every time through Yale's center. At the 15-yard line Yale made a stand and Harvard's V could get no further. Then Trafford fell back for a try at goal from the field. The ball went low and struck Heffelfinger, who had broken through. It bounded off to the right and the Yale guard and Hallowell both made a dive for it. Hallowell got it and Harvard...
...Foster has earned the gratitude of '91 by placing a new whirligig sign in his window. It will doubtless furnish a valuable relaxation for the freshmen in their arduous grinding of the next two months...