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...McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor." For two long hours the Japanese spy scrubbed, kept up the pretense that he was a Chinese "boy" (servant). "Now that everything is clean," brightly observed Mrs. McCoy, "I want you to move all the furniture. Bring that bed here. Move that bureau over there. And then you might scrub the ceiling." Sweating and grunting the spy obeyed...
...twelve years ago there arrived in Sayville, L. I., where I. T. & T.'s giant wireless masts rise out of a sea of scrub oak, a baldheaded, wizened little Negro with God on his mind. He opened a free employment agency, found many a job for black men and white. Two years later he bought a small frame house at No. 72 Macon St., took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding...
...repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored by a busy world in the quiet grave at Concord...
...Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known...
...Hermes" Austin, played by R. B. Harrison '32, has shunned romance during vacation time, but produces a photograph which Mac and Tommy, N. P. Farquhar '32 and S. C. Dorman '33, recognize as their big "moment". A chorus of biddies sing appropriate versions of well known songs, "Servant Girls Scrub", and "Old Charles River", were ones we remembered. The conflict in the plot takes the form of a slick-haired product of the most polished clique of society, who soon becomes engaged to the girl, J. H. Pearson '32. This occurs much to the operatic dismay of the hero...