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...thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks ($1.20), and considered himself lucky to have been...
Meyerhold's Theatre. Last minute satires on Soviet life, plays suppressed under the Tsarist regime, a bizarrely staged modernistic Hamlet, and Roar, China! This last, by M. Tretyakov, who has recently returned from China, deals satirically with the present political muddle there...
...games, many of them after runs of 60, 70, 80 yards; who had been forced, by the unwelcome attention of pressmen, to go into a sentineled retirement before this game. On and on he raced, through pools of shadow that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds...
...French liner with all on board sailing east beyond the three-mile limit. And we wouldn't swap Bob Fisher and Charley Daly and Leo Leary and Eddie Mahan and Charley Tierney for all the Hawleys and--" the rest of his speech was lost in a great roar of approval from the crowd...
...Hall through the Yard to the Freshman Dormitories, thence proceeding to the Union. The cheerleaders will accompany the band, and the students are expected to fall in behind. While the University eleven will be battling against odds Saturday, the student body sees a fighting chance to win, and will roar their confidence to the team tonight...