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Kent is known among U. S. preparatory school boys as a place where you have to make your own bed and where the headmaster is a bug on rowing. Father Frederick Herbert Sill, the headmaster, was coxswain of the Columbia crew in 1895. Ten boatloads of Kent boys row every spring afternoon on the Housatonic River. In 1927, and again this year, Father Sill took his best oars to England...
...Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...
Died. Brig. General Dwight Edward Aultman, 57, U. S. A.; commandant of the Fort Sill (Okla.) Field Artillery School; after long illness. Organizer of Cuban army field artillery, in 1915 he was a U. S. artillery observer on the German Western Front, was Wartime Chief of Artillery of the Fifth Army Corps...
...Walter Raleigh was in his prison composing the second volume of his History of the World. Leaning on the sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man strike another, whom he supposed by his dress to be an officer; the latter at once drew his sword and ran the former through the body. The wounded man felled his adversary with a stick, and then sank upon the pavement. At this juncture the guard came up and carried...
...Insult-Extraordinary, you repair again to the Insulter's home, and standing upon the door sill, disembowel yourself with a sharp knife. This is the final retort (hara-kiri), to which there can be no reply...