Word: strays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stray drafts, money...
Eight ghastly dum-dum wounds sufficed to kill ferocious Alcibiade Bebe in the space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...
Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
...head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...
Politics. Should any political thoughts stray through Mr. Chief Justice's mind this year, it might occur to him to compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...