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Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
...mute prisoners of history. That is a doctrine for totalitarians, it is no creed for free...
Today, the buildings still stand, but are used by only a small segment of the student body, mute testimony to the unique spirit of aesthetic gallantry that flourished in the South 20 years after the close of the Civil...
...boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
...friends were wrong. Author Halsey was not (as she herself well knew) a professional writer. She was simply a talented amateur who had stumbled on pay dirt. While the lucky lucre trickled from her purse, her typewriter stood shrouded and mute. Melted soon were the impeccable makeup, the eye shadow and mascara of "gracious living." Today Author Halsey is happily remarried and the mother of a four-year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf...