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Persuaded to go home just before the shooting recommenced was Paraguay's "Runaway Grandfather," dauntless 65-year-old Jose Escobar who sneaked away from his family two months ago, joined his son at the front and fought for 21 consecutive days in Paraguay's Big Push which wiped out 15,000 Bolivians (TIME...
...before dawn in his Manhattan penthouse. Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, who likes to roam the Mongolian Gobi, dimly saw a small man squatting like a monkey by his bed, staring into his face. Dr. Chapman swore, lunged at the intruder. The man ducked back, fled out on a balcony. Dauntless Dr. Chapman leaped after him, tackled him on the fire-escape. After a moment's scuffle, the intruder kicked away, darted down to freedom. "I am accustomed to years of sleeping in camp and I can feel the presence of anybody." explained Dr. Chapman. "When I awoke the fellow...
...imposed a penalty tax upon employers of child labor. But the Supreme Court was not to be fooled by any such oblique methods of social reform and in 1922 declared the penalty tax also unconstitutional. The Child Labor cause was at low ebb but not Mrs. Kelley's dauntless zeal. Only a Constitutional Amendment, she now realized, would do the trick and this...
...human. A woman can rise above being human seemingly; but I never met the man that could." One morning he is found dead in a hedge; a twig might have pulled his shotgun's trigger. Avis bears up, has her baby, goes on being dauntless. To Midwinter, on vacation this time, she has the nerve to tell the whole story, guessing he will let bygones be. How her infant son will turn out, hints Author Phillpotts, will be set forth in the next instalment...
...Svetozar will eat-now we can all eat!" was the joyous, famished cry of the other Pribitchevitches. In Belgrade Hospital dauntless old Svetozar Pribitchevitch was propped up in bed by sympathetic nurses. They fed him mush from a bowl. They wiped the old man's chin. When he was discreetly full, they tucked Svetozar Pribitchevitch cozily...