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...wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this sentiment. Likewise, the evolution law almost passed a few years ago. However, the motto is a criterion of an ignorance-ridden state. It is the 47th state in illiteracy-only one state being lower in the scales. ...* WARREN WHEELER...
That the Barebones Parliament was so called "with due regard to the original metaphor" is almost too delightful and original a theory to be spoiled by the prosaic recital of fact. Still, as everyone even slightly acquainted with English history should know, it was named after a member for the city of London, a puritan with the puritanical name of Praise-God Barebones. His brother, by the way, bore the still more astounding name of "If-Christ-had-not-come- thou-wouldst-have-been-damned Barebones...
...Cuban Ambassador prepared to sail for Havana, where there is almost always a cool breeze. At the Brazilian Embassy there was a great packing of trunks and boxes for a move to the Adirondacks...
...appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited $25,000 to erect a statue to his father...
...Trust has developed many a Chicago subdivision, has bought up many a Gold Coast home and erected apartment buildings on the sites. Thus all U. S. citizens with $1,000 or multiples thereof have the opportunity to make a conservative short-term investment with no tremendous yield but with almost governmental safety...