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...Coach Watcher has shifted the line-up back to that of early season, with Hageman at right forward and Reisner at right guard. This was done in an effort to better match the rugged forward line of the Elis, two members of which are over six feet in height. Both of the Blue guards are also over six feet...
...tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher in the War Department were shot dead. Editor Eftimoff died of his wounds. Sixty shots were fired and eight people wounded before police reserves broke up the engagement...
...thinking of that," said the young gentlemen. "You see, I spilled them when I was bringing in the groceries and if I don't hurry the rain will spoil them." Haste was suggested, but was as soon rejected by this watcher of his own iniquity. He sat for a time shrouded in Cathedral silence. He had acquired the fatalism and the inactivity of the twelve-year-old. He had spilled three pounds of Cinnamon balls, salvation lay only in the laps of the far away gods upon Olympus...
...Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have...
...sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went to Europe. When he got back his job was gone...