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...cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down . . . It's the most fascinating thing in life...
Time passed quickly for no one was too worried about Dever's whereabouts. A group of the youthful Democrats had gathered around Government professor Sam Beer, earnestly debating politics. At 1:45 a Buick convertible drove up and deposited several young Democrats and a pile of campaign literature. "That's the advance car," Tobin said joyfully, "the governor should be just behind...
Harvard's freshman football players, undergraduates only a short three weeks, have kept with tradition surprisingly well. They brought the expected pile of press clippings, were tabbed as "loaded" by Soldiers Field onlookers, and of course, lost to Andover. They did, however, break with tradition by looking exceptionally good in defeat...
Spelunker Loubens was suffering from "cavern disease," acute depression caused by remaining too long underground. On his way up, the steel cable, sawing on jagged rocks, snapped. Loubens fell through darkness to a pile of boulders 120 feet below. He had a broken back and broken jaw. Not until next morning did Dr. André Mairey reach the unconscious Loubens. Even as he lashed the injured man to a stretcher, Loubens died. The stretcher jammed in the rocks. While Loubens' widow and father waited at the surface, the spelunkers thoughtfully removed Loubens' wedding ring and then buried...
...seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them where Death can be found. He assures them that he has seen Death, that very day, down the road, under an oak tree. With drunken bravado, they march to the tree and find, to their amazed delight, a pile of gold florins. But the old man was right, too. Since the three decide they cannot haul their treasure home in daylight, they send the youngest back to town for bread & wine. No sooner is he gone than one of the other two proposes a piece of treachery. The climax...