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...bride and groom near to the bed in preparation. Bride takes off shoes of groom (symbol of submission), guests bring seven sheaves of wheat (symbol of plenitude). Svacha brings white sheet (test of virginity). Groom strikes bride with whip (symbol of possession). Bride and groom embrace. Drushka brings a stall, with calves and lambs painted on it, and chickens carved in wood on top. Svat takes out couple who are warming bed. Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride and groom enter bed. Erotic exaltation of all company. The shadows grow darker. The whole company is immobile...
...every exhibitor claimed for his plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which forced the controls automatically...
...Prince himself was there in a box directly behind the auctioneer's desk. The night before he had paid a surprise visit to the stable, stopped at each stall for a last look and pat. He lingered longest at the stall of Miss Muffet, his favorite hunter. Afterward he had stopped in at the local British Legion ball and danced with the wife of his stud groom...
...free country. Don't give him any time at all, Joe. Ignore him. What were you saying? Oh, yeh, the dean. Well he passed me some remark about why don't I live at college. In the Yard he meant or any ways in Cambridge. "Why not?" I says, stalling. Always stall, Joe, when you get into a jam with a dean. He thought I was trying to get control of my emotions. Losing my crack at college life and squash and the clubs and voting. And Reinhart. That stuff...
...Stall 'em, that...