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...bright and early in the morning the three adventurers swam in the country club pool, visited local homespun weavers, motored 40 miles down over the mountains to visit their confrères, Misses Vance and Vale (Tryon Toy Makers) who for a generation have been teaching wood carving to the hillbillies of Polk County...
Light-haired, blue-eyed, with a long, lean, handsome face, wearing grey trousers and a green varsity sweater, he strode across Dartmouth's campus from honor to honor. Each autumn he played an "iron man" game at guard on the football team, each winter swam for the varsity, each spring hurled weights on the track team. And each spring his classmates re-elected him president. In junior year he was chosen president of the junior honor society, Green...
...ways landed his family in the poorhouse before his son's fame brought him better fortune. Juan was a puny child, and his legs were never any good, but when he and his cronies play-acted as matadors he was acknowledged the best. It was dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning...
...command of the Macon. He is a veteran of five years' service on the sturdy old Los Angeles (now decommissioned). Before the House Naval Affairs Committee investigating the Akron's fate, he told how water rushing into one cabin window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, will take command of the Naval Air Station...
There were live dogs, live chickens, live pheasants, live tap-dancers. Mrs. Roosevelt stopped at a booth labeled "Consider the Poor Fish" where tropical fish swam inside bookends, lamp bases and cases hung like pictures on walls...