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...something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs alone. "Whether they [Swiss correspondents in Germany] continue to peep through keyholes and burrow in dirty political washing, they may be left to their fate. Their business, however, must show a sinking tendency in proportion to the realization by their lonesome readers in Germany of how little political importance attaches to Swiss opinion, and then these Swiss papers will have to return to their...
...imprisoned with other captive English officers in the Dutch fortress Wierickerschans he, unlike his fellows, welcomes incarceration. In this enforced retreat he will be able to lead a long-desired contemplative life, work uninterruptedly on his history of English 17th Century Contemplative Livers. The other officers agitate escape, burrow tunnels while he burrows in his books. Against his better contemplation he joins the others in trying to escape. They are foiled, but escape is thrust upon him from an unexpected direction...
...entered in the tournament are: D. G. Anderson '35, J. J. Bandian '35, R. L. Barnes '33, R. R. Borden '35, E. M. Bullard 2G.B., W. F. Burrow grL., Enrico Cappucci 1E.S., Cornelius Christiancy 1L., A. A. Cohen '35, Abraham Cone '34, T. J. Curtin '34, C. C. Doyle '34, George Evashwick '35, S. H. Forbes '34, G. N. Gactan '32, Herman Gross '33, H. A. Ham '33, G. J. Huberman '34, A. C. Jack 1L., F. J. Jeffers '33, R. B. LeRoy '34, J. L. Madden ocC., R. V. Mancini '34, Robert Mandel '34, R. R. McGoodwin...
...whip to tell Mrs. Phipps's superintendent; then set off, with her hounds, after the rabbit. Later, the hole into which the man had disappeared was found to be seven feet deep, furnished with a blanket, pots & pans, straw, a spade. He was persuaded to leave his burrow, where he had lived for almost a month, given a job as a gardener...
Near the city of Cienfuegos a Federal patrol swooped on a little drugstore and dragged out one more leader of the revolution from his burrow beneath the counter. He was Col. Aurelio Hevia, a successor to the imprisoned General Mario Menocal. U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim notified the State Department, perhaps a little prematurely, that with the failure of the Gibara filibuster and the capture of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, President Machado's troubles were as good as over...