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...eighty-fifth year. I have shot my bolt, I have done my work. War or no war, my number is up. . . . When I was a little boy . . . I saw in the newspaper every day a column headed 'The Civil War in America.' . . . When I grew up they told me that that war . . . had abolished black slavery, so . . . I determined to devote my life as far as I could to the abolition of white slavery. . . . Look after my plays and look after my films. They are all devoted to the abolition of that sort of slavery." Although this thesis...
...putting together the bits of this argument Miss Boothe leaned further and further forward until the final sentence found her sitting bolt upright on the edge of her chair. She reached down for another cigarette, lit it and continued...
General Philip Neame, an engineering expert famous for a day at Neuve Chapelle in 1914 when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops...
...Yoga-trained Lou Nova, 26: a heavyweight prize fight against 32-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's champion; by a technical knockout in the eighth round; after Madcap Max had shot his bolt, was too weary to get out of Nova's way; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines, it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v. private power...