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...Canada those who were left were divided up???some to Montreal and Quebec, some to the Indian villages. When Mrs. Lygon had to leave her husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield...
...Woodruffs are already there when the Crawfords come up???Jack Crawford, successful commercial artist; Susannah, his silent, handsome, able wife and their daughter Judith, turning 17, a modern, vivacious youngster. Prissy, gossipy Mrs. Nettleton and her sister Miss Kitty are looking forward to the summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation...
...Alexander Woollcott wrote a play," he continued. "He had been a dramatic critic for years, and when his play was shown the other critics got together and blew it up???they made...
...hats wore brooches with the motto: Fear God! Fear Naught! Men wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up???this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up???and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...