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...hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew it until policemen stopped the careering vehicle, arrested the caitiff flim-flammers...
...back yard of his boarding house, carroled loudly, "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" Cried his landlady, a Mrs. Ritter; "Ain't you never going to shut up on that tune, Smottox?" An instant later, as the "Smottox" carroled on, she heaved "a red hot frying pan" out the window "just to scare...
...Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that gave him the idea that he was an authority on the subject, but to this day he does not know the difference between a photograph and a painting .... Our Adelphi Terrace windows looked right into Shaw's.... One day Barrie, who then lived under us, wanted to show Shaw to some guests he had to lunch, and he fired a roll from his dining table through the open window on to Shaw's table and his guests saw Shaw...
...stand fidgeting on a green carpet; Mr. Gatti-Casazza was busy. When at length an interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor to his office, one reporter hung behind, then dashed to a window and peered down just in time to see the door of the big car close behind a dapper, short and quick-moving man in a derby...
...drills, either out of malice, or because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...