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...fire started by sparks thrown off by a circular saw which ignited a heap of kindling and then spread rapidly through the wood and coal sheds. Firemen were engaged in fighting the blaze for more than two hours...
...kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...been living with her parents in Derbyshire, writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they read about her prize-winning feat in the newspapers they were struck all of a heap. Determined as well as secretive, Authoress Beith hurt the feelings of Publisher Stokes's press agent by refusing a formal presentation of her prize. Only thing she would say about her writing: that she took it up "to take my mind off other more boring subjects...
...curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told, set the palaces afire and saw their grandeur crumble into a dirt heap. Persia also crumbled...
...also its greatest living theorist. As the author of "the theory of permanent revolution," Comrade Trotsky holds that the lower classes are at all times revolting against the upper classes. Naturally Danish Deputies of the Right and Centre took Prince Aage's letter as their cue to heap torrents of abuse on Denmark's bearded Socialist Premier Thorvald Stauning. Premier Stauning retorted...