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Steered straight by little Roderic O'Connor, the Crimson shell moved through the dark water with the lightness of an arrow. New York Times...
...years back by Katherine Hepburn. The time is the B. C.'s; Hippolyta is Queen of the Amazons, that tribe of women warriors who thought that man's place was in the home. She marries shy, sissified Sapiens, son of Pomposia, who has a corner on the spear and arrow market, in order to get the necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress...
...passenger-car market; the same four companies lost $9,600,000 (piled atop a $19,500,000 deficit in 1932). For most independents this was too much; they fell like a row of paper soldiers. In the fallen line was many a proud trade name: Willys, Pierce-Arrow, Graham, Auburn, Studebaker, Peerless, Reo, many others. A few tough ones came back...
...first time in 300 years, there is no regular ship service between New York City and New England ports. In 1937 the Fall River Line auctioned off its ships. Last December the boats of Eastern Steamship Line were requisitioned by the Government. Last Sunday the four-decked buff-funneled Arrow, last ship of the Colonial Line, ploughed down the Sound from Providence to New York, to follow its two sister ships (Comet & Meteor) into Government service...
...through school (meanwhile marrying and begetting two sons) and graduated, age 29; with highest honors. His wife graduated in the same class. Then Old McDonald set out to convert Oklahoma because "Oklahoma was bound for hell as straight and as fast as an Indian could shoot an arrow." The McDonalds settled in Sallisaw, on the edge of the outlaw and moonshine belt. There, when one "man killed another no one bothered him because the community considered the killing was an execution and not a murder...