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...bombs hurled by police and militia, but screams and uproar told what effect the barrage of rifle-fire was having. The convicts returned the fire with their one gun, injuring only one attacker. Seeing that they needed heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march...
...were agile and his large frame was light to his motions. He filled the parlor with his seriousness. . . . Another, Frank Railey, would stop casually on his way up or down the street, or he would take her to row on the pool beyond the town." But when Albert suddenly withdrew his challenge, releasing Theodosia for Florence Agnew, and when Conway Brooke was burned to death in a fire at night, Theodosia Bell began to hear the wild horns of disaster blowing more closely through the quietness. Among the papers of her grandfather she found letters saying that her father...
...four prisoners, amid hysterical excitement in the court, calmly put their hands into the hat and withdrew their ballot, stoical resignation imprinted upon their features. Twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Jauregui, youngest of the quartet, blanched-he drew the black ballot. Fiercely protesting his innocence, he called upon the court to hasten his execution by a firing squad, saying that he would not appeal...
...cruiser to take U. S. Navy Lieutenant Alford J. Williams and his speed plane to Venice in time for the Schneider Cup races, President Coolidge stated that in his opinion transatlantic steamship service would be adequate. Later, when navy officials had approved sending a cruiser, the President withdrew his objection...
...race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop in his native Germany, sprinted doggedly, passed George Young. A little further and cramps twisted Young's stomach muscles...