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...Spanish war, mules gained much in prestige by their plucky work dragging light field guns through Philippine hill country. It was a great day for simple, hard working "Maud" when she was rewarded with the title of "Army Mule," and was paraded forth in a new blanket to face the Navy Goat, and equally sad, the first defeat and the loss to the enemy of blanket and pride...
...beautiful sunset but is enveloped in a heavy fog a great number of days during the year. A prisoner with enough "guts'' could on one of these foggy nights plan his getaway, swim a short distance to a confederate in a boat and disappear under the blanket of fog, until he is caught again. Just because a man is a criminal does not signify he is a nitwit. They have just as much brains as the B.H.'s [Big Heads] and although they use them in a different way-i.e. against law and order- they...
...order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that small merchants and other employers operating under blanket, temporary codes were just as liable to prosecution as those who had signed permanent codes...
...exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell...
...metal; the other side was unscathed. The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck. Bodies of Smith and the radio man, untouched by fire, were near the tail section. In the same vicinity lay a blanket, peppered with tiny burned holes, and parts of a bottle. These were rushed to the Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern University. Presently United Air Lines announced its findings: The crash was caused by a high explosive. The blast occurred probably in the lavatory cabinet where blankets were stored. Whether the explosive...