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...other hand, he undoubtedly would have used it routinely in conjunction with dors, had one of the Waterloo skeletons bitten him, especially one wearing Prussian buttons...
Bring 'Em Back Alive. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...
Last week, during a twelve-hour session, the deputies debated whether the Russians had actually charged that American soldiers had "bitten old ladies" in Berlin streets, or whether the Russian interpreter had meant "beaten." The matter was referred to the nonfunctioning Control Council. Next day, the Russians announced that they would be unable to attend the next Kommandatura meeting either...
Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...
...human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked until 11 that night. Sure enough, he found the incubating malaria parasites...