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...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
...Republican youth organizations; a formidable rival group claiming almost two million members has sprung up; and further secession movements seem to be well under way. The Arctic war has frozen out the ruling minority and has crystallized the different currents of opinion which had lost themselves in a swamp of lethargic submissiveness to an "aggressive" leadership...
...shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall, of petrified corpses, of armies falling into lakes, of feeble sunlight touching the warriors for a few moments a day, is something for which neither the historians nor the poets...
Rumors that Eliot House is sinking at an increasing rate into the swamp on which it was built were spreading through the University last night after high officials failed to deny reports...
...with the choosing of the site of the traditional sent of "Harvard Indifference." All the region south of Eliot and South Streets--the area now occupied by Eliot House and Memorial Drive used to be a low-lying swampland on which "squatters" lived in cabins, whose disappearance into the swamp in the early days of Cambridge provided one of the chief sources of excitement for local witch-hunters...