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Event. Where the Susquehanna River, coiling under the roots of an enormous elm tree, lips the edge of a lonely oatfield in Pennsylvania, two campers lay last week. The night was thick; a fog, which had crept like a huge grey beast out of the riverbed, sniffed at their fire; they waited for sleep...
Through the match play, the veteran Mitchell lasted splendidly until he ran against spry young Archie Compston of Manchester in the lucrative final. From 5 down, Compston crept back to 2 down, 1 down, 1 up, and the gold...
...grey death), according to certain medieval conjecturers, issued in the form of a woman's body with a rat's head from the grave of the stillborn Antichrist; scientists have lately suggested that it is bred from putrid fish. Rising out of the East, it has crept down the centuries, a slow, fatal smoke, eating in secret. When Godfrey de Bouillon rode against the Paladin in the 11th Century, it withered the flesh of his captains under their painted armor, followed their retreating banners into Europe. Contagious, it is never hereditary...
Such was the story that crept, last week, out of the jungle to Nairobi, British East Africa; sped thence to Paris, London, the world...
...Black Cross liner Booker T. Washington crept up New York harbor to its berth. This is one of the ships with which Marcus Garvey (now serving five years in Atlanta Penitentiary for using the mails to defraud) (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association planned to use in recolonizing Africa with U. S. Negroes...