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...honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
SERIOUS COQUETTE?People scatter tears throughout the auditorium as Helen Hayes shows how a flirt may break her heart...
Came the army to Hungerford. On the outskirts of that town a red cavalcade was seen approaching. The King's troops? Or friendly "Bolshies?" Whether to scatter or march proudly on? Closer and closer came the horsemen. Ah, there were women among them! Evidently a friendly "red" demonstration. The army "snapped into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing...
Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
...Another splendid lesson that comes to her with scouting is the ability to play. She is not one of the girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...