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Home went this, Swedish, chorus dame. In lovesick hopeless desperation. To save her brother's youthful name She would not give an explanation. The Ralstons find they've done her wrong, and their proud dignity unbending, Must I prolong this silly song? There is, do tell, a happy ending...
...first surrendered he was allowed to take into his cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing...
...various times during the past 50 years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely...
After lunch he kept the margin until the 61st hole, where people that are 12 up in a 72-hole match either win or prolong the agony. Jones holed out from 30 feet ? but so, with a last furtive twitch, did Hagen. For his 237 strokes (seven under an average of 4's, five under the pars played), he then collected what Amateur Jones would have shunned in any case?swag; of $6,800, a record for this type of engagement...
...hearty acclaim which drowned most of what he said. Over the din one diner thought that he caught the words: "It seems a long way from Calle Florida to the Strand. . . .* But there is so much in common between Britons and Argentines that their friendship and understanding will indefinitely prolong the century of peace between...