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...instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale...
Informal rowing is scheduled to start for both upperclassmen and Freshmen on Monday afternoon when the first combination of oarsmen will be posted in the window of Leavitt and Peirce's. Yesterday and Monday Captain Platt took eights on to the Charles for brief preliminary workouts for returned crew men. The upperclass candidates will report for workouts at Newell boat house while the first-year men will report to Weld boat house...
...Crown Princess Louise of Sweden: "My husband and I were lunching last week at the British Embassy in Tokyo when an evil looking man peeped in at the window. I djd not see him, for I was sitting with my back to the window between the British Ambassador (Sir John Tilley) and the Belgian Ambassador (M. Albert de Bassompierre). Sir John's son, Roger Tilley, who was sitting across the table, saw the man draw a knife and sprang toward the window as the man hurled it in my general direction. The knife entered Roger Tilley's vest...
...dwellers and other city folk, gave thanks for a report by the U. S. Bureau of Standards that arc-welded girder joints can be substituted for pneumatically riveted joints, being as strong, often stronger. The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent...
...great when he finds that the couple he has strangled in the dark are strangers. A Louisiana farmer, despairing of love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare...