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...three other planes were waiting ahead of him, 400 miles west, at Dutch Harbor (Alaska), while high winds and repairs delayed their chief at Chignik (Alaska). Before Major Martin left, he found it necessary to scrape 400 pounds of ice off his plane and thaw out his gasoline pump. The promise of calmer weather proved deceptive, and with reports of 100-mile-an-hour gales in the North Pacific, the second disappearance of the Seattle was sad, but not unexpected news. The natives reported that " the weather is worse than has been known for years and even the sea gulls...
...opposition candidates numbered 1,004 for the remaining 179 seats: Don Sturzo's Catholic Party with 140 candidates, the Socialists with 100 candidates, three other opposition parties (including Giolitti's parish-pump-plus-place-holders organization and the Communists). There were also insurgent Fascisti movements in Turin and Alexandria, and the "Constitutional Opposition" headed by ex-Premier Bonomi...
...keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years old, he is the brains of the Ludlow Street Gang...
...after all, the old pump and John, the orange-man, are gone. Heated cannonballs are no longer necessary to warm the dormitories, and holidays are not celebrated by broaching kegs of beer in the college yard. The memory of these things may long be cherished, but they are really only part of the scenery; their modern descendants are the Waldorf and Terry, Jimmie's and the double-O, and without doubt these successors will be fondly remembered by present-day undergraduates. The traditions of Harvard are something different--something as old as Harvard but as alive today as ever...
Peter Weston. Peter Weston, self-made millionaire, tried to run his children as he had run his business? by domination. He forced one son, a would-be painter, to go into the family pump-works, another away from idleness into advertising, and broke up his daughter's love-affair with her poor but honest sweetie on financial grounds. Of course, after that, things had to go wrong and they did. Son John was electrocuted for killing daughter Jessie's lover. Son James became an alcoholic; and daughter Jessie, though unwed, began sewing on tiny garments. So Peter was left...