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...pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...
...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta. The 1908 marathon was run over English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number...
...deer was killed. "I saw the deer drinking from a little slough. Then the police car drove up and two men got out. One had a rifle. He fired a shot and struck the deer in the foot. The deer staggered up a little knoll. He fired again and it fell. Then he walked up and shot it through the head as it lay writhing on the ground," said another witness...
Here is an account, not reprinted from the current issue of the American Magazine, of the rise of a Man. To those whose present position seems to hold little future for them, to those who feel that their feet are caught in the Slough of Education, to those who feel within them the desire of the moth for the star, the story of Robert Lampoon will have a meaning all its own. Read then, all you in whom the flame of ambition is not yet suffocated, read the story of Lampoon, the Boy who became a Man overnight...