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...lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk at the Grand Hotel, Paris, can hold a telephone in each hand and turn the pages of his ledger with his elbow. King George quotes Cromwell; his grandmother drove around a block in Manchester to avoid passing Cromwell's statue...
...want of elbow-room ever felt, till we moved out of Holden into ten or fifteen spacious lecture-rooms and recitation-rooms in the other college halls, in which we have suffered greatly for want of accommodation ever since. I really think the name of 'Holden' must have something to do with its capacity for holding every body and everything...
When, in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire, after more than 800 reeling years, was jostled into its last bloody gutter by a Corsican elbow, when Virtue raged unchecked in England and that shrewd but disappointed politician, George III, was declared hopelessly insane, certain print shops in London began to sell miniature theatres. With them they sold engraved cards of scenes and characters; the price-a penny plain and tuppence colored. The game of playing with these toys became a fad more prevalent even than Virtue, and as fevered as the undone George. Recently, in the bookshop of S. Nott...
John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity, energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace...
Blunt was climbing along a narrow window ledge from one room to another when he lost his balance and fell. He hit on his side and sustained a broken elbow, a fractured leg, and serious internal injuries...