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...motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...flames were in the stalls now. The horses were neighing above the battering thunder of their hoofs. In the stable-yard a crowd of men ran about, shouting for water, making mad shadows in the light of flames. Joe Cavens, a jockey who had been suspended for whipping his mount's head in the homestretch of a race, ran three times through the stable door and each time came out with two race horses prancing beside him in an ecstasy of terror. At last his clothing caught fire; he beat it out with his hands and stood with the rest...
Disappointed grumblings of Wets against this Commission policy were summed up by thunder-voiced Senator John James Elaine of Wisconsin: "The Commission is dodging the very job for which it was created...
...problem. He could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about to break...
Young Fascists, opening their New Year's copies of Tricolore, the Young Fascists' weekly magazine, were treated to a special contribution from the most prominent of all Young Fascists last week, the first instalment of a full length blood-and-thunder novel entitled La Camorra ("The Black Hand") by Vittorio Mussolini, II Duce's plump and swarthy 14-year...