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Proceeding to Dunedin, New Zealand, the Duke was greeted amid a frenzy of enthusiasm so great that 107 persons, mostly children, fainted in the crush. Concerned, H. R. H. went personally to a first aid station where doctors were working over the unconscious patriots and did not leave until all there had recovered...
...indecent proposal: "Let's combine, juggle the stock, and sell out! Easy money!" Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart's face, stalks out of the room. But Lockhart forms the Consolidated (eleven big companies), gets himself elected president, starts a series of dastardy plots to "crush that young damn fool." ("Then, by God, I'll crush him to a pulp!" And Lockhart doubled his knuckled fists into two tight palsied knots.) But Rowntree is never crushed. At two o'clock one morning, pacing his father's library, he clutches at a musty volume...
...Open terrorist methods have been used by the mill-owners in Passaic. New Jersey, in an attempt to crush the textile strikers," stated Albort Weisbord, noted Communist and labor agitator yesterday in the course of his speech at the Liberal Club...
...does it look for tomorrow, Joe?" he asked with apparent nonchalance, but I could see his besom heave and re-heave as he waited. I couldn't bear to crush him with anything definite, so I just said. "Well, Jess, it will; take three touchdowns to win, and you know what three touchdowns...
...opening of the class football season on Solider's Field yesterday saw a powerful Junior eleven crush a game but outclassed Senior team by a score of 22 to 0. Shortly after the opening kick-off. Heard, 1928 quarterback, ran back a punt 30 yards to, the Senior 20-yard mark, and half a dozen slashes through the line took the ball across the line, Barbee tallying on the last plunge. In the second and fourth quarters, sustained offenses yielded two touchdowns, and another drive bore fruit in the form of a field goal from the 20-yard streak...