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...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
...building's 200-ft. tower by its president and shown the view. Mr. Smith only takes friends to the tower. Cartoonist Edward T. Brown of the Herald-Tribune drew a picture of Mr. Smith at the top of the building with the Democratic donkey baying below. The title was "Treed," the dialog: "Come on, Al. Just one speech for Roosevelt...
...Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed...
...Marshfield, Ore., a cougar leaped to the back of a cow belonging to Farmer W. J. Ocheltree. When it leaped off again to attack him, Farmer Ocheltree kicked it four times in the face, made it run. Then he dogged, treed, shot...
...they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must been treed into with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work, and we only wonder how we have...