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FROM THE ARCHIVEAug 11, 1929·Washington, District of Columbia

TYPEWRITER KEYS LIKE MACHINE GUNS

Scanned from Evening Star, Aug 11, 1929
TYPEWRITER KEYS LIKE MACHINE GUNS
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12 Episode in a Machine Age i o if. You Ha Been Reading the 0 Henry Memorial Award Stories Appearing Exclusively in the Magazine of. The Sunday Star You. Will Not Be Disappointed in.

This Yarn Episode In A Machine Age Another Prize Story. Will Be a Feature of. The Star Magazine Next Sunday ii 6y EOFFREY LANE sat hunched over T his typewriter. The keys flew They beat a steady tattoo like a machine T gun raking the paper from one edge to the other as letters massed into words and words lengthened to lines H was working with a grim persistence as he had worked tor weeks and must still work for weeks A stern inexorable task without res pite.

He must go on and on for what semed an interminable time. He was quite unaware that the tension mounting within him had reached its limit that catastrophe was at hand that it awaited him at the end of the very next line. Then you really love me Eleanor exclaimed in a kind of awe. The starry light in her blue eyes deepened Geoffrey had typed.

He had reached the big love scene in his story and he.

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