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...Christian girls cower, but the Jewess, Rachel, cries : "I! I! I'm not a woman, I'm only a-a - slut! That's good enough for a Prussian!" Forthwith she stabs "Mademoiselle Fifi" in the throat, killing him, then escapes by jumping out the window, finally hides for months in a church tower, fed and cared for by the priest and the sacristan...
...time of Tutankhamen's exhumation in Egypt, striking versions of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, together with emissaries from the Powers-not omitting the heavenly, for an angel descended blithely by pulley and wire from a third-story window, entered the Cambridge market square and there, from the subterranean public mictuary, resurrected a cigar store Indian, one Phineas...
That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse...
Today I had eaten lunch and, in preparation for drawing out my wallet and paying my check at the cashier's window, I laid my copy of TIME on the counter. The very flapperish-looking girl behind the bars took up the copy and when I went to hand her my money, she smiled and said, "It's a marvelous magazine, don't you think?" We conversed for some minutes, and I have a date with her. From now on I shall use TIME to help me pick up my dates...
...uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing insurrectionist. Exploding, it wrought wreckage...