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...foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called...
...woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...
Among his literary works are numbered his biographies of Edward Roland Sill and Justin Morrill, his editing of Lowell's Anti-Slavery Papers, and contributions to the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannics...
About the time John Tyler was President of the U. S., the Creeks were looking with awe and reverence on a child that had been born among them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records...
...recent questionable left on the undergraduate door-sill by the Harvard Critic reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate...