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...chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
...satisfy orders. A good part of the silk & rayon industry's 125.000 operatives had already trooped back to re-opened mills. Consumption of raw silk last month jumped to 60,000 bales-up 29% from last year and the highest monthly taking in nearly two years. Japanese farmers clop-clopped about their sericulture more cheerfully, for the sudden demand had shot raw silk prices 82% above the June low of $1.10 a pound...
...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
...keep the aftertaste from happening Auckland hastily swore in 1.200 special constables. Also two squadrons of the sharpshooting Waikato Mounted Rifles arrived with a loud clop-clopping to protect Queen Street. But suddenly on the second night the mob, swarming in from side streets, engulfed once more the inexperienced forces of Law & Order. Three more hours of rioting broke almost every Queen Street window while insurance men despaired. Even Auckland newshawks were staggered, reported that "members of the crowd cursed and swore the most fearful oaths...
...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...