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...been a suffragette, a temperance worker, a Socialist, a fiery fighter in lost causes in the half-forgotten day of pale little mine breaker-boys and vicious sweatshops. She had been arrested 36 times, from coast to coast. She had been an intimate of Eugene Debs, had helped Upton Sinclair investigate the horrors of Chicago's stockyards, which he dramatized in his novel, The Jungle. She saw the Pennsylvania anthracite strike of 1902, the great Michigan copper strike...
Meanwhile, the real, window-breaker--one of the dozen who escaped--revealed himself to Dean Leighton and volunteered to pay all costs: window, fines, ball, and lawyers fees...
...Mello, record breaker in the pole vault in his freshman year, started the winter in usual form, then faded. There's no reason why he can't recapture his spring. So far, Mello's touch...
Berman, a former Eastern Interscholastic half-mile title-holder, was expected by the most optimistic to run a fast fifth against the field of champions in the Prout Invitation 600. For the first two laps he ran last while indoor A.A.U. titlist Hugo Maioeco land Olympic 400-meter record breaker Arthur Wint threw elbows at each other...
...breaking all the rules. He was not only pursuing the chancy and self-conscious enterprise of writing verse for the stage; he was writing verse which, like a drink on a hot day or a kiss on a cold night, gave pleasure and satisfaction. That other rule-breaker, T.S. Eliot, had written a magnificent and entertaining verse play in The Cocktail Party; but its verse was so discreet that it usually sounded like prose, and its sobering moral sent the audience stumping out of the theater on its knees, pricing bad bargains out of the corner of its eyes...