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...first pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn...
...Every bill is first voted upon by a simple shout of "ayes" and "noes." Only in case the Speaker's decision on this vote is challenged does "division" occur. There is a great ringing of division bells for two minutes. Members come scrambling in from wherever they happen to have been?perhaps eating strawberries & cream on the Parliamentary terrace facing the Thames...
...question or bill is then put a second time. Again members shout "ayes" and "noes." Again the Speaker announces his decision. Only if he is challenged a second time does division proper occur...
Also such super-speakers could be made to shout propaganda across No Man's Land night and day, attacking the enemy's morale, keeping him awake. In the laboratory, mice have been killed by a sound barrage. The German superspeaker tested last week may with development prove in the next war to be a sound Big Bertha...
Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...