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...this condition, aggravated no doubt by the exhilirating sight of a usually sedate Yard swarming with uniforms, that last Saturday delivered a mortal blow to the resolution formed by the Vagabond after last year's Yale game not to let himself be lured from the narrow path of duty by anything so alien to his proper sphere of interest as a football game. At the first sign or the coming of the Hanoverian horde nothing could save it, and last night its remains were buried by its sorrowing owner in the bottommost cellar of Widener...
Citizens of Chicago were thus reminded that the ugly men who have supplanted the silk-hatted drivers of hansom cabs, were at war again. Policemen, whom taxi-drivers mortally hate and fear, could find no more definite clues to the burning than the likelihood that Checker cabbies had planned a mortal strategy. The sluggings, thefts, bombings, bumpings into and off, the strange noises of speedy warfare in the streets, continued in Chicago...
Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...
...years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League had dragged the country...