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...this ailment, in 1922, died Publisher Lord Xorthcliffe, whose picture always hung near the desk of Publisher Hadden. Lord Northchffe, indomitable, founded the London Daily Mail (now nearly 2,000,000 daily circulation), owned the London Times and scores of other publications, signed himself N like Napoleon. *Total paid in: $86,000. Largest subscriber, Mrs. William L. Harkness of Manhattan and Cleveland. First Board of Directors: Robert A. Chambers, Henry P. Davison, William V. Griffin, all of New York, William T. Hincks of Bridgeport, Conn.-besides Messrs. Hadden and Luce. Counsel: Judge Robert L. Luce of Manhattan...
...American undergraduate is supposed to suffer, on occasions, from nearly every ailment in the oldest or newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most...
...Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull...
...spends an average of $60 yearly on doctor's bills. That comes to a daily total income of $1,500,000 to the medical and allied professions. Every day of the year, 2% of the total population is incapacitated, 50% is suffering from some ailment or other. Hospitals worth $5,000,000,000 and maintained at a cost of $3,000,000 a day care for the sick...
...interesting game; I play every time I get an opportunity. People often wonder why there is such a store of material for jokes in golf. I think that it is because golf has such a human side to it. Every one that plays, usually suffers his own particular ailment, and anyone watching him, who plays golf, feels sorry...