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...coldly at his bedridden lady. "Very well," he said at last. "An you're so generous, you may give my land away-all that you yourself can walk around." With a grim laugh, he left the room. But Lady Tichborne, even her dying womanpower not to be underestimated, crept from her bed and down the stairs. By the end of the day, moving painfully on hands & knees, she had encircled 23 acres, known to this day in Hampshire as "The Crawls...
Extremist. In Chicago, R. B. Heehler got a ticket for speeding, 15 minutes later got a second ticket for speeding, four hours later-as he crept along, with vengeful caution, at 8 m.p.h.-got a third summons for impeding traffic...
...note of cordiality crept into U.S.-Argentine relations last week...
...William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis), but he never went home. At 15 he was forcing himself to practice juggling 16 hours...
...Fish and Wildlife Service, had too many strikes against them. They reproduced slowly. Their protracted lovemaking customs were a liability. During the breeding season they would gather in flocks on high knolls, parading, capering, bowing and prancing in careless ecstasy. While crane-boy was getting crane-girl, pioneers crept up with scatter-guns and mowed them down...