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None of this year's grain "racers" had a radio. Ten of them belonged to Captain Gustaf Erikson, a retired master mariner of Mariehamn, Finland. Though every ship had a 100 A-1 rating at Lloyd's, one or more might vanish, capsize or stagger into port without masts. Running far out of the steamer routes, few planned to show lights at night. Most would take four months, some five, a few would crowd to get in under three months...
...Gardena, Calif., a Federal Prohibition agent drove past a house, saw a pig stagger out of a ditch, attack an automobile tire, saw another pig try to climb over a fence, decided the pigs were drunk, stopped, investigated, found a still, arrested Dominic Caprini...
...Novelist Somerset Maugham, a guest broke in the Fells' room when he heard Mrs. Fell's screams, found Fell on the floor gasping, "I did it myself. It's my fault." Mrs. Fell testified her back was turned when she heard him rise from the table, stagger and fall with a big table knife in his chest. She pulled it out, had hysterics. His stepfather Alexander Van Rensselaer, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, called Fell "not the kind of man to take his own life . . . not a quitter." In 1923 Fell was fined $500 and costs...
...Lwow's Commercial Academy savage young Gentiles formed a double line with clubs in their hands. All Jewish students, even the girls, were forced to run the gantlet, to stagger away with bruised bodies. Jewish passengers were dragged off street cars and clubbed. Somebody threw a bomb into Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue, blew out all the windows...
...Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity that stagger men with public sensibilities...