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...length of his own vision. He pulled open the throttle another notch. No. 2 thundered around a curve. Torpedoes began to pop under its wheels. Directly in front of it a red lantern bobbed madly up & down. A few hundred feet farther on the two red tail lamps of motionless No. 8 glared in the darkness. Engineer King shut off steam, slammed on his brakes, let go the sand. He did not throw his reverse lever because he knew he did not have time to make it work. He closed his eyes as his locomotive's snout struck...
Kidnapper McGee sat motionless. Said he: "I don't see why anyone should be hanged for a thing like that...
...movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal not to be denied...
...passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor Bao Dai enthroned in the Palace of Supreme Peace. For hours & hours & hours His Majesty had to sit motionless, extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial Chinese etiquet, now observed exclusively at the Court of Annam, "no man's eyes may rest upon the Emperor enthroned, no woman may be in the Throne Room and the Emperor's eyes must dwell...