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Fourth Day. Next morning three gigantic American shot-putters-Clarence Houser, Glenn Hartranft, Ralph G. Hills-strode determinedly out of the locker-room. Picking up their missiles they catapulted them afar, shook hands with each other, strode back to the locker-room. Down came the Finnish flag, up went America...
Only 2,000 were allowed to goose-step into Halle for the unveiling ceremony; some 70,000 remained, outside the town and made a great noise from afar. It was the greatest monarchial demonstration seen in Germany since...
...peace plan, announced from afar by his big voice, consisted entire- ly of a few whereases and a suggestion that the President call an international conference to make arbitration treaties...
...coming-out party, the orphaned niece sets out on a stage career, inspired by her success in dramatic school. Her aunts had opposed such a life, solely because she belonged to one of the oldest New York families. She tackles a young actor-manager whom she has adored from afar, recites a lurid defamatory speech to convince him of her talent. It convinces him she's a blackmailer, and he telephones for the police. In the end she finds herself in the manager's arms...
After all if the doctrine of heredity holds water, the present cafeteria "hath had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar." As a proof, not much after 1636 one finds that "Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote...