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...Miserables. At first the peasants would stare at a prisoner and say: "Look at the Jew." But one day Hélion jokingly rolled a lump of coal toward a little girl. She ran off with it. Next day her father, one eye on the guards, gratefully slipped Hélion a meat sandwich. From then on the peasants realized "that we stood together on the same side of the castle: the slave quarters...
...shell hit the top of the hill. A dark lump flew up with the smoke and blasted dust and went higher and fell in a gentle arc. A man screamed: "Help! help! help! help...
More Fun. Old Exterminator finally petered out, bringing a lump into Scott's throat and the feeling that "my sword had been taken away." But Scott put her old guns into his new ship, and they soon became the machine's "real soul." Sometimes he would think of his family and feel homesick. Once he told General Chennault that he wished he could just press a button that would kill all the Japs and let the squadron go home. "Aw now, Scotty," said the General, "we don't want to do that. . . . Think of how much...
Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
...what surprised youngish musicians was the fact that beauteous Lillian Russell was also obviously a woman of voice. She took her high notes with operatic aplomb, turned her phrases with the delicacy of a diva. There was even a hint in the recording of the lump in Lillian's throat which she frequently got when she sang this particular song. That catch in the throat had a history...