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...other finalists are Rockafellow and Cutler who shaded Swaybill and Harte in five sets: 6-1, 2-6, 6-2, 7-9, 6-4. The latter pair sprang from obscurity on Thursday by defeating Hunter and Throckmorton...
...remarkable thing is not how badly this Island of Haiti was governed, how great the corruption and mismanagement, but that any government at all existed for so long, considering the condition of the people from whom it sprang. Even its eventual and almost inevitable failure was a "beau geste...
...screen in front of them. He had run toward the cars drawn up there outside the gate as decoys, their engines running. Beside him was another convict. In the yard were others. Death was waiting for them, they knew that as soon as the cloud of gas sprang out of the gate. They backed up to the wall on the opposite side of the yard, clawed at it with their nails, climbed on each other's backs trying to pyramid over. As shots followed them, they ran inside the south cell block...
Babies were no longer born dead in Nagyrev. They died a few days later, of cholic. In Nagyrev churchyard sprang up a whole row of little graves, all beautifully cared for, for they belonged to Nagyrev's best families...
Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...