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...Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie Mack nor jumping up to argue with the umpires like McGraw, are part of a thoroughly indigenous U. S. scene, part of the perspiring pattern of summer days in St. Louis...
...blockhouse. He had dug the dirt floor out to a depth of four feet, cut loopholes at the floor level. For 15 hours Albert Johnson held off the Mounties. Hand grenades blew the roof off his hut. Albert Johnson retired, like an angry woodchuck stern foremost into a dugout, kept fighting. The police retired, disgruntled...
Seven different kinds of water craft were used by Dr. Rice and his men, from steamboat to dugout, until finally the expedition was forced to walk the last part of the way Besides many wild animal studies, a series of pictures of the natives along the Amazon were made, while aerial photographs afford a complete and careful survey of the whole Amazon River valley...
Aside from this sort of novelty, The Mad Parade is neither an unusual nor a particularly interesting picture. The women, drinking brandy out of hot water bottles, cooking doughnuts, scuttling about in relief camps and shell holes and finally marooned in a besieged dugout, seem mainly animated by feelings of curiosity about the affair the heroine is having with an aviator. She is confiding details of this affair to her best friend when the rat appears. The hand grenade misses the rat, kills another one of the girls who was eavesdropping, after which Evelyn Brent volunteers to make a dash...
...body. General Sebastian Allende went down in the fusillade with a shot through the spine which he insisted came from somebody's chauffeur, standing in the doorway. Deputy Esteban Garcia de Alba blazed away until a bullet through the hand sent his pistol spinning. From his dugout beneath the press desk the Associated Press correspondent counted more than 60 shots before hostilities ceased and the Red Cross and police rushed...