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...attention has been called to an editorial in your issue of November 19, entitled "Ending With a Kiss," in which you attribute to Loomis the honor of having been Jeanne d'Arc'd to victory over the behemoths of Deerfield by the promises of Miss Bette Davis. True, we did recently manage to defeat Deerfield in football; but unless the boys who managed to bring about the victory have been holding out on me, Miss Davis had nothing to do with the game's outcome. As evidence, I bring forward the fact that three of our four most effective backs...
...last scene centers in the private sanctum of the Gold Eagle Line, 1906. Here one sees plushy opulence indirect and each visitor must enter through a golden Arc de Trlomphe, from which dangles a heavy medallion. Young Guy comes gleefully in to tell his hated failure that the scuttled ship has been said vaged, and the crime thereby disclose Gold Eagle tries to reason, but failling that he invokes the Deity to descend upon on this wayward Absalom. At the dramatic moment, Heaven responds with a beautifully-handled earthquake, in which father and son perish as the Gold Eagle...
...afternoon a metallic mass swooped in a long arc over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape...
...stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...
...share delicacies with the old man, welcome relief from a diet of black bread and potatoes. Suddenly Old Fritz, bewildered, was transferred and Marie was arrested and condemned to death. Later her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and after the war this "stocky, wide-eyed Jeanne d'Arc" was awarded a British decoration...