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...Race. "They'r-r-re OFF!"... The long roar thundered like a wave, grumbled like a rising sea-surge through the crowd down the long stretch. The stands seemed to sway, to swell with it; hats and parasols and a foam of faces rose, hesitated for an instant on the top of the wave, settled slowly down into a whisperless silence. The horses moved down the stretch...
...cannot be said that they were swept away utterly by the strange, quiet Spanish singer. Her art was too subtle to sway a shrewd U. S. audience that had paid $27.50* a seat to be amused. It had been a great occasion in the theatre; one of the few supreme personalities of entertainment had fulfilled her promise, and Meller, who carries eight golden bracelets as mementos of her great successes, was fully entitled to purchase a ninth golden bangle. Yet the barrier of language and the unfamiliarity of a charm that has fathomless depths but no tumult had obtruded themselves...
...phantom. In yet another light, the recurrence of this sectional line-up, which is essentially an arraignment of farm against town indicates a cleavage not unknown to American politics. In 1800, 1828, and 1896, it culminated in new party alignments. Now with the House falling under urban sway as the population of the cities grows, it would be hardly surprising to see the farmer make the Senate the scene of his last stand in much the same manner that the southerners checkmated the north long after the latter had outstripped them in population...
Years ago, before the mossless rolling stone was rampant on the shield of this particular vagabond the rolling Easter egg held sway. Painted in gaudy and inedible colors, the largest duck eggs were brought every Easter Monday by an Easter rabbit, and reckless little boys tried unsuccessfully to eat them. My pursuit of golden eggs in those days was as ardent as it is today...
...performer of the nautch, an Indian ballet-dance in which the dancers sway and vibrate their bodies without moving from the spot on which they stand. By developing certain muscles, especially those of the abdomen, they are able to produce seemingly impossible twitchings and convulsions, which are highly esteemed...