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...reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...
...Houston, and another by Bacon, brought it well up to Princeton's goal. After some sharp playing on both sides, the ball was passed to Holmes, who, by a fine rush, secured the first touchdown for Harvard. Captain Cushing attempted to kick it over the goal, but failed, amidst shouts of joy by the supporters of Princeton. Soon after, the referee called time, and both teams retired to rest awhile before the next three-quarters began...
...only one person is exposed as the murderer) and various other nefarious strategies. The most plausible offenses are the doping of the players' gloves with a chemical intended to injure hands badly, and a bullet fired by the unseen murderer at a player about to make home amidst a roar of applause. Aside from the fact that the player is shot through the heart at a distance of a whole ball field and a street, the idea is pretty good, as no gun could be heard in the roar of a baseball game. At any rate...
...months have elapsed without action on the Bill, and daily it sinks further into the background as other issues arise to command the attention of the administration. In another three months of carefully regulated silence the Tugwell-Copeland Bill, like so many other good but "inopportune" measures, will die amidst the rejoicing of the quacks and their advertising confreres...
...Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola...