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...attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers began to cheer and slap each other's backs. "Hurray for the statue of Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ship Strike | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...upon by three weasel-faced fellows-men who, in soggy swaddling-clothes, were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days of his pride, he could have broken with a slap of his hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Battler | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Slap!" A drowsy man rolled on his side, cursing uncomfortably. "Whack!" Another big mosquito escaped, purring out of hearing only to return like a seaplane disappointed over its landing place. Hordes of his fellows bumbled through the night, making it hideous for the otherwise hardy companions of explorer Donald B. MacMillan sleeping aboard the S. S. Bowdoin at anchor in Hopedale harbor, Labrador. Some of the men, their epidermis punctured beyond endurance, clambered to the crows'-nest in vain search of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...that woman swore, which she had ever received. In adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strong Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

With a slip, slap, slop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/19/1925 | See Source »

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