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...What seemed "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine"? (See BUSINESS...
...pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats...
...least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies for she is writing tale of love, of lightness, and of whimsically, not a treatise on Bolshevism in war-swept England. The woman in the case Miss Astley Madam is described as a penny plain" person--just a girl who s doctor's assistant, who loves a man and lives. Then, too, there are aristocrats to the number of three, but for the most part, their role is only penny-plains...
...merely to the English colonists but it is now proposed to admit America. The action is taken in view of the splendid showing that our athletes made abroad last summer and also of our games against Lord Hawk's team of cricketers. Owing to this last proposal Mr. J. Astley Cooper, who is one of the originators of the scheme, has written a letter to the Harvard Boat Club, from which an extract follows...
...ASTLEY COOPER.The Australians and the people of South Africa have already sent their approval of the scheme, and now America's answer is looked for. The idea is to have the events competed for by representatives only of the English speaking race but of the entire race. It is proposed that the prizes should be not money but some trophy from the nation or the race to the man, which he would ever after value and which might form an ornament to his country. The Prince of Wales has been interested in the proposed scheme and shortly the whole matter...