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...Cambridge a grocer's assistant named John Dover Place sued Dr. Charles Frederick Searle, charging the doctor had enticed his wife Gwendoline from his home. Evidence showed Grocer's Assistant Place spent four nights a week at the Rose & Crown public house. Wig askew, Sir Henry Alfred McCardie, England's handsome, black-eyed bachelor judge, said...
...least. Later he went to Delaware, Ohio as director of Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory, where he got the same correlations. The past year sunspots decreased about 50%, radio reception improved about 400%. Meteoric Static. When the earth swings through a swarm of meteors, radio waves go askew. The meteors ionize and rustle the Kennelly-Heaviside layer, radio's sounding board around the earth. -Dr. A. Meldon Skellet, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Electric Clocks, run by 60-cycles-per-second powerhouse current, are sufficiently accurate to operate astronomical telescopes. Dr. George Wilber Moffitt is using such a clock...
...certain broad, shady street in London each year a crowd of people gather. The men stand, hands in pockets, derbies askew, smoking casually out of the side of their mouths. The women in impossible hats nudge each other and giggle. Little boys wiggle in and out among the legs of bystanders seeking a place of vantage near the paving. They all stare with English impassivity out upon the cobbles, waiting. Then, from a distance, drifts up the music of a band and someone shouts, "Hits 'im, hits the king...
Lank Sir John Simon, his lawyer's wig slightly askew with the vehemence of his summation, faced ten men and two women in the jury box at Old Bailey last week. Said...
...book, which begins to relate the stalking of Mr. Howard by a gang of gunmen at Atlantic City,, suddenly goes insanely askew. Tom? Howard has an hilarious conversation with a ghost, but the show's few genuinely good moments are supplied by a hitherto unknown young man named Hal Le Roy whose tapdancing is peerless. None of the music, none of the gags, save The Gang's All Here from being a pretty waste of money...