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...London but an area of 8,000 square miles. (Total area of England 50,327 sq. mi.; Scotland 30,405; Wales 8,016.) Two steps off the curb pedestrians were completely lost. Conductors carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours while fog-bound commuters, jamming every compartment, sang...
Unstinted diligence on the part of Captain deGive in the nets, and determined although futile endeavor displayed by the rest of the team were not sufficient to halt the avalanches of powerful rushes of the McGill sextet as the Scarlet horde swamped the Crimson skaters to the tune of 12-2 in the Boston Garden last night...
...puck the length of the ice, and passed to McGill, the hardest shooter in the Canadian circuit, who drove the rubber into the net from the dasher. The next three McGill goals came at the end of the first stanza, all within a period of 30 seconds. The Scarlet skaters rang up three more tallies in the second period, again through four and five man rushes...
Although Mrs. Dandy at the time was in Johns Hopkins Hospital seriously ill with scarlet fever, her husband was ready to go ahead with an operation on the Trammell infant. After a 54-hr. study of the case Dr. Dandy began the operation, which lasted two hours, through the side of the child's head. He found that he need not construct a by-pass for the cerebro-spinal fluid. Sufficient was removal of an obstruction between the lateral ventricles, cavities of the brain which lie in the region of the temples. His report to the public: "The baby...
...keeping house, entertaining, riding, hunting, fishing, acting as "judge, jury, doctor and family adviser" to the hundreds of Negroes on the place. Not until she was over 40 did she begin to write seriously; her first collection of sketches, Green Thursday, was done unbeknownst to her husband or son. Scarlet Sister Mary won her the Pulitzer Prize (1928), was afterwards dramatized for Ethel Barrymore...