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...cars climbed craggy Virginia Canyon 50 mi. west of Denver, rolled suddenly into the narrow street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second annual Central City Play Festival, blowing...
...later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They . . . are too dangerous...
...evening last fortnight Ashgrove's two-acre turkey field lay calm and ordered, with some 1,000 turkeys roosting on bark-limbed perches or in their big, immaculately whitewashed house. Next morning the field was a shambles of blood, feathers, mangled turkeys and broken glass. At first attendants thought there must be 300 turkeys lying with tooth-marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been...
...little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
...garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time, it will now only bark...