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...that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted...
...famed water poloist in history, Joe Ruddy Sr. His three sons, Ray, Don and Joe Jr. are currently the team's mainstay. Born and brought up in New York, Joe Ruddy Sr. won his first swimming race when he was 14, at the Chicago World's Fair. Thirteen years later, when he had had time to master water polo and 25 other sports, Joe Ruddy married a champion swimmer named Mary Veronica Donahue, started to raise Mary, Dorothy, Joe, Ray and Donald Ruddy. Ruddy children were taken for their first swim at 11 months. At 2½ years...
...Thirteen years ago when Spada first set out to make a name for himself with a double-barreled shotgun and a pocketful of shells, he was a plump, handsome young man, looking for all the world like a road company tenor in Cavalleria Rusticana. His reputation began to grow when he shot two gendarmes in the back, killing one. He considered the highway between Ajaccio and Sopigna his personal property, collected tribute from all travelers for years. He avenged himself on a young man who ran away with his mistress by murdering the boy's uncle and a cousin...
German measles again became the prevalent source of worry around the Hygiene building, with the appearance of thirteen more cases yesterday. This rapid multiplication of roseate sufferers adds so greatly to the total in Stillman, that there are now more hands to hold than nurses to hold them. At present every House but Adams is represented among the afflicted, but the Gold Coasters entertain high hopes that they will soon crash through...
...Third Class team, which numbers thirteen men has as its leading contenders William Loomis, Harold White, Frederick Bigelow, William Quinby and Thomas Motley. It is expected that Dartmouth, Williams, the White Mountain Ski Runners, and the Newport Ski Club will send competitors...