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...prove that he possesses one virtue which every tutor in every Harvard House should possess patience. For the tea was ready was poured, was disappearing, while the cakes reposed on the library table unapproachable, un touched, uneaten. The camera in use was of a type and adjustment requiring thirteen minutes' exposure. The tea became the first course, the cakes the second...
...with their own brains. A frequent host, a frequent guest, he sings & plays much and well; likes horses, dogs, hunting, billiards, golf (in which his national handicap was once 8), says with modest mendacity that he does many things, all badly. He has a reverse superstition about the number thirteen, for his company is called the Thirteen Company.* His chief abhorrence is modern...
...THIRTEEN MEN-Tiffany Thayer- Claude Kendall...
Most murder-story writers content themselves with two or three violent deaths in one book. Not so Author Thayer: his hero kills 39 people. But Thirteen Men is not a detective story, for the murders are all committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer...
...golf team lost only two out of thirteen matches played during the spring. The Yale team won a close fought match, 5 to 4; while Princeton defeated the Crimson players...