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...tavern in Deadman's Lane, sub-leased to Widow Lee, Will Shakspere . . . created . . . a roistering hubbub." His "broken, almost falsetto voice" became a feature of London life. His "fat body" was soon "taxed by excesses." Many suffered from "his scheming tricks ... his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer...
...done for years, he visited the tombs of Keats and Shelley, admired the stairs leading from the Piazza di Spagna, shuddered at the architectural bad taste of the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, roamed happily through the Coliseum and the ancient ruins in the Roman Forum. At last having tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain (which all tourists do to make sure that they will return to Rome), Penny pedaled off across town to Vatican City...
...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
However, the trio's greatest triumph came when Ruml deposited a coin in the other Arcade machine, the Champ, depressed the nickel slot, and pulled it out again with unaccustomed vehemence. All the little lights suddenly lit up, giving Ruml the regular five balls and a 50,000 point handicap. He won 77 free games...
Another novelty for Eastern skidoodlers is an automatic timer. Downhill runners on the Green Mountain's Whippersnapper Trail, by dropping a coin in a box at the starting line, can find their time-registered in split seconds-in a box at the finish line...