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...University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause of the Jacobs' rejoicing. What had happened was that in far-off Manhattan the judges of the Bodd, Mead-Pictorial Review 1935 novel contest had awarded their $10,000 prize to one Margaret Flint. And Margaret Flint was Mrs. Lester Warner Jacobs' maiden name...
Halliburton, who graduated front Princeton with the class of '21, attributes the star of his adventurous career to an overwhelming desire to visit distant lands and to find unusual subjects for narrative stories. He believes in the extraordinary in travel and has numbered among his stunts in far-off places everything from swimming at midnight in the sacred pool of the Taj Mahal to crossing the Alps by elephant in the footsteps of Hannibal. "While on my travels I live in the time of 5 B.C., the modern world then means little to me," he stated...
...Davison uttered grateful words. Presently a switch clicked in the darkened room and then was heard the sound, familiar to planetarium demonstrators, of hundreds of gasps and smothered exclamations, like the far-off murmur of surf...
Whatever else he may seem to the modern reader, Biographer Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant...
...little colony that voluntarily accompanied their fallen Emperor into exile on a far-off island in the South Atlantic soon found that St. Helena's was a poor climate for noble sentiments. Though their English captors attempted, in their way, to be humane, their blundering tactlessness soon drove the exiles to a frenzy of outraged sensibility. Napoleon's honor was touchy, and Sir Hudson Lowe, the British Governor, was a choleric, literal-minded martinet. The French and their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience...