Word: sirene
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...satisfy health officials that they are not too exhausted. Their skates, provided free, have maple wheels- By last week, the Roller Derby's repair shop had rounded 1,400 flat wheels. During the race, "jams" & sprints for small prizes are encouraged. When a contestant is injured a siren stops the jam, the contestant's teammate takes the track. Most serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into a railing, broke her shoulder. She and her husband, last married couple in the race, withdrew. Only family team left...
...does seem peculiar that certain members of the Harvard Faculty are unable to resist the lure of the siren's pen, and the happy knowledge of having crashed the front page or the newsreel. The job of the professor is to teach,--not to make dilletante statements known not to be true. Possibly through the higher branches of mathematics, on can derive something from nothing, but mental queerness must be magnified many times before one can equate a "storm" of drunkenness "passing over Harvard" with one isolated, unfortunate case of janitorial abuse. The general sobriety apparent at the recent Lowell...
...siren shrank swiftly into the distance, like the airport falling away from an airplane. Above his head things grew cloudy, and he heard a voice, saying, "Not every one knows it, but at Harvard the students live in seven beautiful houses. They cost Mr. Harkness twelve million dollars. Twelve million dollars is a lot of money. In England twelve million pounds is even more money. Mr. Harkness's ancestors ran around in leopard loin-cloths, hunting wild boars for supper, and made fire to cook by rubbing two sticks together. These ancestors never knew what twelve million dollars looked like...
...Arthur Brisbane. I will write your column in a train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Outside my window is the most beautiful country in the world. High taxes will soon make it a howling wilderness. . ." The voice faded off, like the siren, and a darker cloud took the place of the first one. This voice was gayer and sounded as if it were having a good time...
...English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion of the North Atlantic, sold for $252. Also knocked down for handsome prices were the ship's bell, signal flags, navigation instruments...