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...room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention of nostrils, the buyers make their bids known and slowly the auctioneer sways down the room until every stack is sold or else withdrawn by a farmer who thinks...
Last week in North Carolina the annual "tobacco break" was again taking place. Highways were filled with trucks and wagons, crowds jammed into the warehouses. Their crops reduced by abandoned acreage, drought and insects, the growers were delighted when the chanting did not stop at the "ay-ay-ay'' of eight or the "ni-ni-ni" of nine. Average prices varied from 10? to 13? against 4? to 6? last year. Despite their poor crops, most farmers fared better than in 1931. All the big companies making 15?-packages of cigarets were actively in the market. They hoped...
...Solo" (Selected by Mr. Jesus Maria Sanroma); "Overture to William Tell," Rossini; "S Kommt ein Vogel Geflogen," by Ochs; "News Flashes of the Ninties," Magic Lantern; "Jolly Fellow Walz," Vollstedt; "The Fortune Teller," Herbert; "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Knight; popular song hits (Tara-ra-Boom-de-ay. The Bowery, The Sidewalks of New York, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Daisy Bell, A Bicycle Built for Two, Comrades, Little Annie Rooney, She May Have Seen Better Days, The Band Played On, After the Ball, Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...Four years ago Author Homer AY. Smith transported to the U. S., after a Guggenheim-sponsored year in Africa, 28 lungfish (Protoplecus acthiapicus Heckel). Twenty-seven of them died. Fortnight ago the 28th had completed three and one-half years of estivation in its mud-pie in a laboratory at New York University Medical College...
...brass work. Today there remains only 15% of the vessel that fought the Barbary pirates, defeated the Guerrière in 1812, earned the name of "Old Ironsides" from the way her planking withstood shot. When the Navy prepared to junk her in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote his "Ay, Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down," caused her to be commissioned a second time in 1833. Her third reconstruction came...