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...report of them. Then the Widener Beast sat up on its hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast has never sent him a card. Some thirty times our tutor has baited it, but the prey eludes the trap. Mournfully we suspect that somewhere in Widener even now there is a modified Jonah who has been...
...revenge the Varsity baseball team will journey to Nickerson Field to tackle Boston University in its own lair today at 4 o'clock...
...moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private daily diary covering 1936. In Oriental eyes there was nothing preposterous about all thisidnapped Premier & Generalissimo's extremely businesslike and beauteous Wellesley-graduate wife, Mme Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling), left Nanking courageously by plane for the kidnappers' lair at Sian in Central China. With her flew her brother, T. V. Soong, Chairman of the Bank of China, and that enigmatic Australian "adviser," William H. Donald, who has been attached at various times for a number of years to both Kidnapper Chang and Kidnappee Chiang. They alighted amid...
...demonstrate anew his ceaseless vigilance Harvard's despot sallied forth from his lair, and assisted one Miss Catherine Morison to unveil the new pump with all his oldworld chivalry and eclat...
...more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair...