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...mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this cañon a dozen years ago-the kilns and a score of houses are deserted and overgrown with poison oak and empty save for bats and snakes and a few broken tables and benches. (A considerable enterprise-over 300 men were employed there.) No one goes there now. We were startled the first time to find standing on a floor in a dim corner, the portrait...
Jammed into Philadelphia's Academy of Music, the biggest audience of the season rubbered last week when Jazzmaster Paul Whiteman stepped briskly forth in a black coat, striped trousers and chalky spats, sporting an overgrown carnation and a yard-long baton. They rubbered also at the 25 musicians Mr. Whiteman had imported from his celebrated band to augment the efforts of 101 regular members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For two hours, supported by the orchestra, the newcomers tooted saxophones, snorted through trombones, rattled wind machines, picked guitars, shrilled police whistles, thumped tom-toms, pumped accordions, wailed on bagpipes, clicked...
...jointly-documented, 650-mile walking tour taken by John Keats and a friend in the summer of 1818. The path led Author Bushnel (who was weighed down with a load of maps, books and Keats's diary) over the hills of North England and Scotland and over trails overgrown with shipyards and factory districts that were not there when Keats made...
...first Phyllis, Ralph's wife, had the hardest time. Edna, Tom's wife, hated her and always made her feel that she was in the way in the kitchen. Her two big overgrown sons picked on Phyllis' little girl. Her husband felt bitter at Ralph for losing his place, and in an argument about whose place was lost first, the brothers got into a fight. Old Grandpa Young kept saying ineffectually that he was not going to have this contention in his house, never did have it and never would, at last wrote to Harvey for help...
...their amazement by enthusiasm. They likened Louis, a cool young blackamoor who did his work with a commendable economy of motion, to a cobra, a leopard, a panther. He received innumerable complimentary and alliterated nicknames, and a match with noisy and preposterous Max Baer. Baer, like Camera, was slow, overgrown and easy to hit. Louis dealt with him the same way, except that this time the knock-out arrived in the fourth round. Louis ceased to be an animal. He became a "superman...