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...didn't get, she slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live like the Lesters-mangy, flea-and fly-bitten, sore-splotched, in a "filthy and unclean kennel" in Garden City Park, L.I. His wife Katherine explained: Jim picks up strays; most of the animals are 12 to 14 years old, several are blind, they have a naturally neglected look...
From preacher's son to postman and postman to Pullman porter took up the first twenty-five years of Snowball's life. Religion was the one thing he did not get from his boyhood. At the age of nineteen, while taking mail from the trains, he was "bitten by the bug to see the country at the expense of the Pullman Company." And for the next five years, as porter on the 20th Century Limited, that went from Boston to Chicago, he matured from wide-eyed innocence to philosophical manhood. As for seeing the country, he "looked up its worst...
Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other...
Disillusion came quickly to the Spaniards themselves. At the sight of the white Aztec metropolis and its great temples amid blue lakes, green slopes and high peaks, a roughhewn, hard-bitten soldier of Cortez' army in 1519 cried, "It is like the enchantments they tell of in the Legend of Amadis! Are not the things we see a dream?" But soon he smelled the sickening stockyard stench which was wafted from the gorgeous temples, saw thousands of skulls threaded on poles in the public squares...
...Aside from United, only big producer to show lower profits than a year ago was bomber-builder Glenn Martin, bitten by production bugs (aluminum shortages, redesigning, etc.), as well as by taxes. Its first-half sales rose only 36% over 1940; profits-after computing taxes at 60%-dropped...