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...superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen-which resulted in a series of untoward occurrences. . . . There have been several cases of derailment, suicide, mysterious deaths . . . unaccountable accidents. The place was haunted by evil, prowling spirits of the nether world, so the religious Japanese claim. The stone from the tomb was the source of the 'bad luck,' an evil omen for more misfortunes to come...
...During the whole night I assumed complete direction of the royal train.* I received all reports relating to the train's movements and there was not the least ' untoward incident...
...boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought St. Kilda last year, immediately decided to move the population to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Ayrshire's temperature seldom rises above...
...liquor cargo at sea was obvious. As all the world knows, the ragged squadron comprising Rum Row lurks twelve miles off New York Harbor. But no one on the tug M. Moran, which towed the E, or on barge P, which was part of the tow, had seen anything untoward happen. A Federal inspector stationed on the M. Moran to see that the swill was dumped out far enough had nothing to report, but was exonerated by the harbor authorities because after the dumping he slept "as is the custom of Federal inspectors on such duty...
...play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone for "Mabel" and dropping in informally while inebriated. At the end of two hours of unclean fun, the youngest daughter is betrothed to the local vicar's son-whose first appearance in the house...