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...poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described so ably as "Four score and twenty years ago." They let me join. I joined...
...sportsmanlike means of introducing into the game the element of surprise, without which it would be stupid beyond words. The spectators for whom the game is made interesting ought certainly to be the last to complain if a few moments are required to set the stage for the thrill producers. Until a better means of achieving surprise is evolved, the huddle has come to stay...
...Coolidge Potatoes" are now selling for $3 a peck,* f. o. b. Ply mouth, Vt. Last week New York newspapers contained an advertisement of the Dimock Potato Corp. of Bellows Falls, Vt., which said: "A thrill for your dinner guests. . . . This unusual, long-to-be-remembered novelty-baked potatoes de luxe-grown on the farm of Calvin Coolidge's boyhood...
...pairs of scissors. Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein resisted them. Convict Duchowski, who had killed a Chicago policeman, broke the Warden's skull with the crowbar; others stabbed him with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them. "His old man has lots of cash," they said, "he will set us up." But young Leopold was padlocked in solitary confinement for stealing the prison's sugar. They could not open his cell; he would have to be left behind...
...skyward and rivers with names like Snake and Yakima coil through forests never scarred by the ringing ax, the Governor had, after ten years of grim waiting, "got" the President of the State University for an old grudge, there was less alarm for the welfare of public education than thrill at the substantiation of legend...