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...Greenland natives, customs, scenery. Salamina was Rockwell Kent's housekeeper. In her late 20's, she was handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
...were using to hold on monstrous sailor hats. Among best-selling books of the year were George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young journalist, who was one clay to record these events and many another of the Century's first quarter, was on his way to recognition as one of the outstanding liberal journalists of the decade...
...Madison, Wis., after his eleventh dancing lesson, Farmer Seymour Moe, 41, stood in a corner of the dancing school and wept because he could not dance. For the seventh time, police came, arrested Moe for creating a disturbance, released him for the twelfth and last lesson...
...Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back to San Francisco where it all happened...
...Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know if he had missed his chance to play in his team's big game...