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...waiting to show its attack late in the game, but starting with a rip and a roar. Pennsylvania crashed through the famed Yale line for two touchdowns in the first half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BEATEN FOR FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS AS PRINCETON STRUGGLES TO TIE | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Control | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Prohiition | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...trumpets roar when a man ....dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dastard Cleverness | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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