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...addition to the Lexington, Neb., high school was under construction. Until a new flagpole should be ready, the authorities demonstrated their patriotism by having the school's U. S. flag nailed to the top of the workmen's 60-foot hoisting tower (with elevator for bricks, mortar, etc.). The flag flew there bravely by day, and drooped there darkly by night. The Girl Scouts and local War veterans protested, but nothing was done until one night last week, unable to stand it longer, Girl Scout Mildred Sorenson, 15, climbed the hoisting tower and chopped the flag free. Coming...
Another time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...
Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...
Near Woodruff, S. C., workmen with picks, shovels and dynamite worked day and night in shifts, for 110 hours (four days, 14 hrs.), to cut through the roof of a creekside cave on the farm of one Jonas W. Swink. Mournful howls, deep in the earth, spurred their efforts. Crowds gathered. On the fourth day, they dug out the body of a large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died...
...activities of the Bullingdon Club received the attentions of the Oxford police--we presume there are such--nevertheless, from all accounts, the environs of Christ Church college, the scene of spirited action, bore the mark of the invader deeply imprinted. It is reported that it will take a dozen workmen a week to repair the damage wrought by members of the Bullingdon Club in their "exuberance . . . after dinner . . . Saturday night". Misery loves company, and it should be balm to bruised spirits to know that the confreres of the Prince of Wales, who was a member of the Club in college...