Word: marooned
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...which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable...
About dawn the landlady jumped up in bed as a volley of shots rattled the window panes. Feet thudded down the stairway. A voice cried: "Hell, that's enough -come on." The front door slammed. From a window the landlady saw two men disappear inside a maroon sedan, watched ihe car slip away in the half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood...
...Freitas and Chesnulevich do not play at top form, the Maroon will have small chance for victory despite the fact that many injuries haunt the Crusaders...
...weeks ago the University of Chicago celebrated Alonzo Stagg`s fortieth year as coach of its football team. The day before yesterday, the Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper, published an anonymous letter urging Stagg to resign his caption. "The Daily Maroon takes this opportunity to present without comment a communication received from a student of the university. Members of the university community who hold other views are invited to make use of this column...
Anonymous letters should never received consideration in the columns of a newspaper. Usually they are the work of a crank; invariably their authors are unwilling to acknowledge the opinions expressed; but whatever the subject, they can only be disregarded. By its very publication of the letter, the Maroon showed its concern over the unsuccessful teams Chicago has had during the last five years; without making editorial comment, it asked that other interested keep the discussion open. Was all the festivity of a fortnight ago a more gesture? Or was it evidence of true sentiment and devotion? Support of losing coaches...