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...Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
...that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses...
...capital's shanty-lined favela hills. For the favela folk, pro-Vargas almost to a man, the return of the "father of the poor" called for a big blowout. In their "samba schools," where fathers, mothers and children had paid dues all year toward costumes and a community float for the carnaval parade, the sentiment was the same: "We'll make this one for the velhinho [little...
Captain Pilcher sat glum and alone And muttered with heart-rending moan: "The archbishop will float If he falls out the boat, While my fortunes will sink like a stone...
...sterile social life most of the year has two annual flings, the Spring and Fall Weekends. The "Big Weekends" are time for calculated abandon during which, on a structure of football or crew races, as the season demands, the University student body consumes an immense amount of drink, stages float parades, and throws an endless number of parties...