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...tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered...
...Senators wrung his hand: "La France will mourn you long, M. Clémenceau. As her most gallant champion, have you the heart to abandon her thus in the night...
...crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...
...used to do all the cooking and clean the house and help me with the washing. He scrubbed and wrung the clothes. Then we used to sit in front of the radio when there was a fight broadcast and hug each other when his man was winning. . +. Oh, he was a fine boy. He wouldn't hurt anyone. . . . Just mischievous...
...will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung from him by the narration of how the Grange family moved west...