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...form of puzzle known as the rebus is supposed to have originated in Picardy. a French province famed for its roses, in the early Renaissance. French schoolboys still have fun with such ideographic riddles as G a, which may be read J'ai grand appetit (G grand, appétit). More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record...
...your editorials on medicine, and I told you then that this phrase had been held to be "against the law" by the Appellate Court of Illinois in an opinion by Justice John M. O'Connor in the case of Preble v. Architectural, etc. Union, 260 Ill. App. 435. Since that time the Illinois Appellate Court has again condemned the use of this phrase in Tarjan against the National Surety Co. 268 Ill. App...
...Connor's opinion along with the criticisms made by John W. Davis of New York and the Honorable George W. Wickersham. And again in May of 1935 the Illinois Appellate Court spoke on this subject in the case of City National Bank v. Davis Hotel Corporation, 280 Ill. App. 247, and said that the court has now found "tiresome and vain repetitions of these further abominations-and/or, was/were, is/are, it/he, its/his, it/him-so do bad habits grow." A. R. HULBERT Attorney and Counsellor at Law Chicago...
...this sad band of involuntary evildoers, Mrs. Fulmer App of Muncy, Pa. last March prepared and served pudding and salad to 70 guests at an old woman's birthday party. Three guests died of typhoid fever, a dozen others were laid low, and last week Mrs. App, who knew what a menace she was and had been told to stay away from kitchens, was fined...
...Holworthy Hall. Candidates for S.B., near the west end of Holworthy Hall, Candidates for A.M., Ph.D.; S.B. in the various branches of Engineering and Mining, S. M. in the various branches of Engineering, M.E., Met. E., S.D.; Ed.M., Ed.D.; M. Arch., M.L.A.; M.F., S.M. Zool., S.M. Bot., S.D. App. Biol,; and M.B.A., in front of Stoughton Hall. Candidates for D.M.D., M.D., D.M.S., B.P.H., M.P.H., D.P.H., LL.B., LL.M., S.I.D.; S.T.B., S.T.M., and Th.D., in front of Hollis Hall