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...gypsy wagon, helped his parents peddle laces and thread, clicked out his first dancing steps on manhole tops. In his early days Escudero's tricks were not confined to his dancing. He rarely had money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow spectator who held his umbrella in the way. He still cannot resist frightening women by suddenly snorting at them like...
Suddenly the class tensed as a bugle shrilled in the Yard, staccato commands barked out, and there was a sound of marching feet. As every neck craned to get a view from the high old-fashioned windows, a band crashed into a swinging melody, and there was a scattering cheer from the dormitories opposite. The suave instructor walked indifferently to the window, heedless of the forgotten Horace. He watched the maneuvres below a minute, smiled, exclaimed "Cripes, ain't that great!" and then, "Class dismissed!" The army had come...
Died. George M. Willetts, 62, retired head of the personnel division of Armour & Co.; by jumping from a window of his eleventh-floor apartment; in Chicago...
...Last year President Frank Edson White of Armour & Co. was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment. Last May Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co., was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment...
Fifty years ago a Harvard professor, travelling in Germany, walked down a crooked little street, and glancing through the window of a dingy old house glimpsed the perfection of a marvelous orchid. Because Professor Goodale was interested in botany he looked again and longer, and to his amazement found that the orchid was glass, so finely wrought that the most minute inspection revealed no flaw. It was then and there that the famous Harvard collection of glass flowers began...