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...Mohammed's birthday. The lone Jew paced slowly up and down, pensive in the heavy Palestine dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha B'Ab, to lament the two destructions of the Temple. So old are those stones that, looking at them, one can reconstruct the scene of the first destruction when in 586 B. C. the Chaldeans, sword and armor glittering in the bright sun, swept through the Holy City, razed the Temple. Another scene...
...wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed an old man, screaming curses, flung himself forward as if to stem the implacable...
...Droned through a little perfunctory debate, during which several Peers of the Realm were observed to be reading the just-published memoirs of Viscount D'Ab ernon, who was Britain's first post-War ambassador (1920-26) to Germany. At the Spa Conference in 1920, Viscount D'Abernon wrote in his diary, under date of July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could...
...children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also outlived...
...third innings, lost his first game this season. The heavy-hitting Crusaders touched him for seven safeties, while he fanned three. F. B. Cutts '28, who pitched the rest of the game, turned in a creditable performance for a cold day, allowing only four safeties. HOLY CROSS ab r. h. p.o. a. e. Harrell, 2b. 3 1 0 1 4 0 Lawrence, s.s. 4 1 1 0 3 1 Savage, c.f. 4 2 3 0 0 0 Shevlin, 1b. 4 0 1 15 0 2 Hurley, l.f. 4 1 1 0 0 0 Phelan...