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Came a call for the 10,000-metre cross-country grind. The sweltering crowd roared greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate...
...Code of the Wilderness. The old West may be changing, but it continues to find locations in which to grind out the ever-trustworthy story of the girl from the East, with her conventional prejudices, brought into collision with the handsome man of the great open shirtfronts who knows only the law of the gun. It is easy to foresee that the girl, with her strait-laced notions about the dastardliness of shooting even in self-defense, is herself going to be faced with the problem of killing a man, before her brain clears. Then Alice Calhoun feels free...
...honest and upright citizen, with no police record and with no axe to grind at some other man's expense, you would be a perfectly legitimate exhibit here alongside our upright apes and bounding baboons from the African outdoors. But it will not do to install you here, as your presence would be denounced as a reproach to the majority of the proletariat and an insult to predatory...
...first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind slow and exceeding fine in Czecho-Slovak, as they do in English...
...there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...