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There was a stir in the church. The doors opened. Out came the priest and his flock. The friends of Dacunda. leaning lazily against the pillars of the Municipal Building, flipped out their revolvers and began shooting. Priest & friends popped back into church and returned the fire. The noise was terrific. After ten minutes of fusillading everyone except one wounded man felt better. Father Dacunda cuffed his daughter, told her to go home and change her dress...
...airs of spring cooled and freshened by melting snows of New Hampshire, troubled with the sound of nesting birds and sweetened with fragrance from bursting buds and flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly...
...trade agreements and on his own authority to raise or lower U. S. tariff rates by not more than 50%. He might have added that although he hoped for early action he hardly expected it. Often and candidly his Congressional advisers have told him that a tariff proposal would stir up a storm at the Capitol that would last most of the summer...
...basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their custom ers, munitions men have only one thing to fight - internationalism. As businessmen their aim is to keep each nation overarmed, to stir up nationalistic anxieties which only guns and shells and tanks can quiet. The de Wendels operate equally well on either side of an international bor der. One branch of the family uses a de in front of its name while the other uses...
Merton Little, the fraternity's janitor for ten years, discovered the broken pipe when he tramped in at 6:30 a. m. to stir the fire. Muttering angrily, he picked up the pieces, fitted them back in place. He had told the fraternity's Graduate Body, owners of the house, that the furnace was worn out and ought to be replaced. But no one listened to a janitor. Still grumbling, he climbed up to the sleeping rooms on the second and third floors. Finding the boys snug in their beds, he pushed down a few barely-opened windows...