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Through the mist and murk of a London night two bobbies assigned to patrol Hyde Park tiptoed up to within four yards of a gentleman and a young woman who were together upon two park chairs. The hour, as the bobbies later testified, was precisely 9:45. The persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency." Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: "Hands off! I'm not the usual riffraff...
...more light on the Brand type of politician, if more were needed. But aside from branding Mr. Brand and his kind, the episode seemed to have a larger significance not because of its connection with the Presidential campaign, which is not properly a House affair, but because of the murk it dispelled from the whole atmosphere of Congressional farm relief. Burton v. Brand was declared one of the most significant debates this session...
...tall black perpendicular shadow moved out of the murk of a cloudy night last week in Brooklyn, into a glaring arena, a boxing ring. Soon it slid back into the murk, horizontally. It, the shadow, was the ghost of the reputation as a heavyweight fighter of Harry Wills, onetime Negro stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect...
...night last week. Motoring home from a day's shooting in Berkshire (at the home of Lady Ward, onetime Miss Jean Whitelaw Reid of Manhattan), my chauffeur ran into a dense fog bank on the Great West Road. He tried to make a detour, but floundered hopelessly in the murk and I had to exercise patience while he groped along the grass edge of the road...
...lacrosse, the aboriginal game of the American continent has only recently emerged from the murk of the past to be the leading non-professional spring sport, has been asked many times. The answer is that lacrosse had to be remade, and it took time. It needed feasibility in its mechanics. It could not be too expensive to support. Its dangerous features had to be eliminated, and as a college sport, it had to be made capable of being learned with a considerable degree of expertness in a reasonable length of time, that is, in two or three years...