Word: faintings
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...Vagabond slowly climbed to his dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there it is! Was that...
...Roosevelt, as judge & jury, sat behind a huge flat-topped desk, flanked by legal aides. Before him, looking small and subdued was "Jimmy" Walker, the first Mayor of New York ever to be summoned to the Capital to answer ouster charges.* To one side sat elderly Samuel Seabury, a faint smile on his wide, calm face. This executive hearing was a climax to his 14 months work as counsel for the legislative committee investigating graft and corruption in Tammany's city. When told that the Mayor got a boisterous public welcome on his arrival, Counsel Seabury remarked...
...heard the news from Mr. Bat'a's stepbrother, Jan Bat'a. Said Jan, "There has been a terrible accident to Thomas' plane." Before he could break the news further Mrs. Bat'a collapsed in a dead faint. Swiftly the Bat'a secretariat moved to drape every factory window & door in black. But hardly was the draping finished, hardly were black flags hoisted to half-mast all over Zlin than the psychological error was realized. Down came the drapes and flags-"things which our First Working Partner would not have wished...
...once seeks a resting place, preferably on something yellow. It is very social. The cloudless clover smells of violets and musk, the cabbage butterfly of mignonette and sweet briar, the yellow swallowtail of "certain brands of honey biscuits." The milkweed butterfly has an odor like "the faint sweet fragrance of red clover blossoms." The female smells like a cockroach...
...point out the utter falsity of the "facts" on which the whole editorial rests; headlines in the New York Herald-Tribune for Monday morning read "May Day Mob Beats Official At Melbourne; Polish Police Fire on 700; Tokio Seizes 1200 Reds; Spain Arrests Scores; Racial Strife In Africa; 80 Faint in Berlin Arena; Hyde Park Has Riot," while a front page story calls the New York May Day parade "the biggest communist turnout this city has seen." Your editor must evidently have spent the day in the poetry room of Widener, or perhaps talking with Professor Carver...