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As the years passed, legends sprang up about the spectral old house. The most persistent: it hid a fortune. But nobody but a policeman and crew from the gas company had ever got inside, and they had seen little. Burglars, who had tried, had backed out after setting off booby...
The buses have other peculiarities. Above stairs, smoking is not only permitted, but virtually mandatory. On humid summer days the atmosphere is often as rich as that of an opium hell. The entrance doors are miracles of cunning engineering-folding contraptions capable of snapping like bear traps, and edged with...
It soon developed that the drummer, Jimmy Crawford, is a comedian on the side. Though he had to peer over one of the most enormous cymbals ever affixed to a set of traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of...
In the small gymnasium of the jail (its floor dusty, its walls dirty grey), three black gallows had been erected with more attention to numerology than to efficiency. The platforms were eight feet apart, stood eight feet above the ground, measured eight feet square. From each platform rose two heavy...
Bobby Jones scornfully called it a cow pasture the first time he played it; the second time, when his score was better, he called it the greatest course in the world. St. Andrews golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish...