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Afire, one of her twin 1,150-h.p. motors out of action, her altitude ebbing, the crippled raider wobbled in over the waterfront at Clacton-on-Sea, an Essex shore resort (pop. 17,000) about 50 miles from London. When they heard her circling for a flat spot to alight, excited Clactonians forgot blackout rules, turned out to watch. Clacton firemen, ambulance drivers, air-raid workers, long rehearsed, were soon ready. Above, four Nazi airmen passed indescribable minutes as the flares they dropped showed no landing place. The plane came lower and lower...
...their travel through the land, Thalia and Mclpomene alight at Yale, Vassar, Princeton, and Dartmouth but never at Harvard. For the Muses of Comedy and tragedy know that here the drama is a stepchild, a poor relation, unwelcome guest. Harvard extends no open arms or vast theatres to the Mummer clan; from Bernhardt to Folies Bergere girl, the reception is a cold one. Frozen out though it is, the drama child yet struggles for existence. As the snows thaw and the leafy season approaches, the HSU and the HDC alike announce their spring efforts. Each of them has chosen exceptionally...
...food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight. More trains came in. He ordered them not to stop, to clear out. "But where to, with this cargo?" asked the engineers...
...advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...
...claim: Yes, a formation of German bombers had passed over a squadron of British warboats which were escorting home a disabled British submarine. The Nazis dropped bombs, but hit nothing. British high-angle guns and planes from a carrier shot down one bomber, injured another, forced a third to alight so that its crew was captured. The Isle of May story, said the Admiralty, was "another version of the North Sea lie" and probably referred to the fact that a Nazi bomber had plunked that day at a British destroyer but missed, done no damage...