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First the Tirpitz deck guards knew of the attack was when they saw periscopes breaking water off the beam. Hell broke loose in the fjord; guns thundered, a rain of rifle and machine-gun fire pattered on the small intruders...
...bases and on most ships of war it is necessary to arrive half an hour early to get a seat. Various games may be played while waiting. One of these is "Chase Me," with flashlights. One spectator will flash his light on the blank screen. Another spectator flashes another beam. Then the chase around the screen begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This...
Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...
...actors did not beam back. In glacial silence they heard their quisling director talk up a quisling dramatist. Then they left the theater to set in motion a little drama of their...
...playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...