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During my 25 years of fox-hunting I have been present at a few kills, but never have I beheld a woman, either decent or indecent, holding aloft a fox's brush (or tail, to the Bishop), with the field of 30 or 40 yelling "Trophy...
...Children at Woodstock were convinced last fortnight that a canary was loose somewhere in the building. Day after day they heard it chirp and trill. Day after day they searched for it high & low without success. Then one day the school manager heard the piping behind him, turned and beheld its astonishing source-a small, greyish brown mouse...
...inserting "1936," Her Majesty was graciously pleased to let stand the fact that she beheld Mrs. Simpson when that wife was presented at Court in 1931, and that, after Edward of Wales had been strictly refused permission to bring Mrs. Simpson to the Jubilee Ball of King George, he brought and danced with her before his parents...
...Cleveland one night last week, a non-paying audience at the Great Lakes Exposition beheld José Iturbi mount the podium for the first of six scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall...
...minutes before the close of the New York Stock Exchange, a few brokers raised their eyes to the two flag staffs at the northeast end of the trading floor, observed that the New York State flag was missing from its place beside the U. S. flag. Instead, they beheld the red banner of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, its golden hammer & sickle stirring gently under a slight draught. At this unprecedented sight, a group of reactionaries hissed, booed, catcalled...