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Lawyer Clarence Darrow, whose Lake Placid address partook of the fervor of a national legend, often addresses Negroes, with a fervor entirely his own. Many a member of the John Brown pilgrimage went to hear Mr. Darrow, in Philadelphia, make his usual speech about the "race" people. In this speech Mr. Darrow says...
...snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. . . . Anyone may fly over Princeton-but if he lands here, and runs...
...Honorable Great Lady, thus bedight, partook with her additional 300 ladies-in-waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
Smedley D. Butler, sturdy Quaker, partook of this courageous, fighting chivalry. He was seen by a British officer to rush out under fire and drag a private to safety. For this the British recommended that he receive the Victoria Cross; but at London, experts pointed out that he was not eligible on technical grounds...
...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...