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...Airways (British) liner bound out of Amsterdam for London was late, or would be if her pilot took time to climb aloft to his usual travel level. The big plane sped down the low Dutch coast. Some 80 miles past the Belgian border . . . Plud! ... a wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial Airways...
This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...
...called to me from the back of the car to stop. I applied the brakes, turned around, and sav Matteotti all doubled up and vomiting blood. Five minutes later he was dead. Neither I nor my friends placed a hand on him, except to push him into the car. Fright must have brought on an acute recrudescence of the tuberculosis from which he suffered...
...kissed, her eyes grew great with fright. On the child's head was a lump, a lump she had never seen before, and she knew every tiny spot on her baby's body. Something horrible must have happened. She telephoned Dr. Strochavi. Would he please, please rush over at once...
...Egyptian headdress is the centre of fright. It was stolen from an Egyptian tomb and has ended up in a plain English country house, which is very properly upset by long, naked arms reaching from behind portières. It is reliably reported that this play was written in all seriousness and in rehearsal evinced a cranky tendency to sound funny at the wrong moment. Therefore it was made funny in a few more spots and blandly billed as burlesque...