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Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...
...news indeed to small Jimmy Costello, son of Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that Col. Lindbergh had looked at him and said: "I wish I had a kid like that." To observers of the tabloid press it was instructive to behold that, on the strength of this apocryphal remark, the yearning Daily News editor had inserted a picture of Col. Lindbergh's wife (unmentioned in the story) and headlined: LINDY WANTS...
...Well are you through? Yes? Then permit me to show you what bunglers you are. You know I have nothing on my person for you have searched me thoroughly. Behold!" He shook his right sleeve. Out dropped six bullets...
Bernarr Macfadden, publisher, editor, physical culturist extraordinary, is to many in the U. S. a hissing and a byword; to many more he is a hero-prophet. Behold three books, issued by the same publisher on the same day, dedicated to him and his works. These books tell a good deal about Publisher-Editor-Physical Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden...
...thank you gentlemen," said loyal Almada, "but I cannot accept. Behold in me now a true convert to Prohibition...