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...roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited junior officer later. "Then suddenly he appeared out of the flames with burning clothes, his Annamite boy following him like a shadow with a bucket...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...kilometre bicycle race was Attilio Pavesi of Italy. On his handlebars he had a bowl of soup, a bucket of water. In a bib that hung from his shoulders were a dozen bananas, cinnamon buns, jam, cheese sandwiches, spaghetti. Around his neck were two spare tires...
...make any sound when they lost their holds and fell. I saw them drop off, but I didn't see them hit the ground. I wouldn't let myself look. I heard them hit though-I couldn't help that. It sounded like a bucket of water poured out on the deck. You know how that is—:just a splash...
...Among famed alumni: Fairfax and Lawrence Washington (nephews of George Washington) George Washington Parke Custis (adopted son), Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Attorney General (1849-50) under Zachary Taylor, and Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, national director of Prohibition, who when McDowell Hall caught fire in 1909, formed a bucket brigade, rushed into the burning building, saved the King William books from the fate of the John Harvard books in the Harvard fire...