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...Buffalo, Paavo Nurmi, who recently ate not wisely but too well of veal pie-and was defeated by Willie Ritola-partook of a modest snack, got into his running clothes, once more opposed Ritola in the 5,000-metre race. This time it seemed to be Ritola who was stricken. He fumbled at his side, strapped his belly with a belt handed to him by his manager, finished 120 yards behind Nurmi who was 14 seconds behind the world's record held by Ritola...
...edgell blade went snicker-snack...
...Chancellor was forced to halt by the indescribable racket of Government supporters and Opposition as they vainly and vocally tried to shout one another down. Herr Luther looked pleadingly toward the President's Chair, but Herr Doktor Loebe was not there; he had left the Chamber for a snack of Frankfurters and beer. The Acting President, Herr Riesser, much preoccupied, suddenly became aware that the Chancellor was not speaking, looked up, caught Herr Luther's eye, jumped up in a fury, spotted Herr Schwartz (Communist), who was outshining his comrades in his vociferous bombilations, ordered him to leave...
...vorpal blade went snicker-snack! The beast was dead, and with his head...
...this delicate a mistress, that it seems impossible to believe the power did not come into romance from the Celts. Magic is just the word for it,- the magic of nature; not merely the beauty of nature,- that the Greeks and Latins had; not merely an honest snack of the soil,- that the Germans had; but the intimate life of Nature, her weird power and her fairy charm. Magic is the word to insist upon...