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...support of full body weight by the ears is not recommended for the care and handling of dogs, children, or any mammal, even if you want to "let them bark." I am shocked and dismayed. GILBERT O. SEW ALL, D.D.S. Secretary German Wirehaired Pointer Club
From the Willow. It must have been salicylic acid that Hippocrates was dealing with when he recommended extracts of willow bark-for relieving pain and fever. American Indians gave willow-bark tea for rheumatism and fevers...
...world. Its charm, perhaps, is that it seems oldfashioned. Ransom's courtly poetic rhetoric seems antique to the ear of an age that banned charm and rhetoric from poetry in order to come to grips with life. Newcomers wandering in Ransom's poetic kingdom are likely to bark a shin on such arch words as "pernoctated," or be mildly astonished at the poet's unfashionable fondness for bucolic life, his hopeless disapproval of industry, efficiency, and the practical machinery of getting ahead. Ransom's poems, Critic Randall Jarrell has correctly observed, "are full of an affection...
...central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...
Belli had an acrimonious confrontation with Dallas Public Relations Man Sam Bloom, who has taken on the job of handling technical arrangements for the trial, including issuance of press credentials. During one exchange, Bloom snapped: "Don't bark at me, Mr. Belli." Cried Belli: "Don't smile at me, Mr. Bloom." Belli kept trying to make Bloom admit that Dallasites really wanted to try Ruby in their city, convict him, and thereby get rid of some sort of guilt complex. But Bloom was insistent: "I don't think Dallas has any sins...