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When the Revolution was at its height, the Gazette took due notice of battles, in despatches, letters. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Gazette was the only newspaper to print its text in full. With a spurt of news instinct, Editors Dixon and Hunter once announced on the front page: "For London news, see last page." Such back-paging, however, lasted but a short while. Soon Gazette readers were again being entertained by "The Assyrian Practice of Marriage," "Present State of Algiers," "Advices from Petersburg...
Elizabeth B. Dewing is the philosophical, rusty-haired lady who returned, with My Son John in 1926, to something of the spurt of fame she made as Painter Thomas Wilmer Dewing's precocious daughter, who, at 23, wrote and published A Big Horse to Ride (1911). In the interim she married, bore two daughters, divorced. Lately she lost her second husband, a Dane, to Death. She tells her stories with warm, effortless naturalism but suffers, like so many sincere writers, from a too great dependence on platitudes in dialog...
...roadhouse job. They arrested Joe. Without much third-degree, he turned State's evidence. Soon the "bulls" got Otero, Rico's faithful bodyguard, who stayed behind to shoot it out while Rico ran. And soon after that a detective got Rico in a corner. There was a long spurt of flame. Rico felt it in the chest. He fell. "Mother of God," he cried, a bit theatrically, "is this the end of Rico...
Coach Mitchell, mentor of the University forces, will start practically the same lineup that hammered out 18 runs against the Alumni outfit Thursday. It is still questionable whether T. W. Gilligan '31 or G. E. Donaghy '29 will bat in third place. The big outfielder's recent batting spurt should give him the preference for the post...
...game with the Alumni on the previous Saturday, a spurt during the Second half gave the University team the victory. The teams had played on even terms for the entire first half. R. C. Glenn '30 and D. T. Saunders '30 each scored two goals for the Crimson while T. I. Nido '30, C. W. Eiseman '30 and Wayne Hobbs '31 each contributed one score apiece...