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Unfortunately, we cannot gloat upon our record thus far, we pass over the events of the last week with a sigh of regret and sob for those who are lost to us. We turn towards the future as relieved as the player who gets a new lease of life after the loaded bases have been emptied by a timely home-run into the right-field bleachers after a long period of suspense. Now we face a new batter and can stand afresh. We have a fine opportunity in the rally tonight to warm up our voices in preparation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rah! Rah! Rah! | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

...Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that of a man speaking while trying to stifle a sob." After the service, again the bearers raised the coffin, marched the forty steps required under the Mohammedan ritual to a waiting hearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Each new attempt with its symphonic sob...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

Each new attempt with its symphonic sob...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Halting | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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