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...politician may blink demagogery, deception, bribery, waste, graft or outright thievery in his associates but, with sound reason, he regards ingratitude as the blackest and basest of crimes. Last week Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo made his first real news as a U. S. Senator when he opened fire on a fellow-Mississippian as a double-dyed political ingrate...
...puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed in a fashion to make the King of Kings blink. Stoutly, Persian courtiers insisted to their jewel-bedecked Turkish partners, on whose toes they had a tendency to tread, that "His Majesty is of ancient lineage, the noblest in Mazanderan...
...that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around the lizards' cage. They gaped at the mottled grey hides, tough and beaded as an Indian bag. They blinked at the great red mouths and serrated teeth, the long forked yellow tongues flicking in & out like a snake's. They shuddered at the wicked claws, long and sharp as a good-sized leopard's. Well might New Yorkers gape, blink, shudder. To most of them a lizard was a six-inch creature which eats flies and scuttles under leaves. These lizards were 9 ft. long...
...road outside Faribault, Minn., one night last week Walter Magee, St. Paul contractor, saw automobile headlights blink four times. He stopped his car, lifted out two cardboard boxes full of money and drove off leaving them in the middle of the highway. To the stack of cash was attached a note...
...Hanford, Dean"--such is the way that countless formidable-looking bulletins, memoranda, and communiques from University Hall are signed. No title is so curt, nor so instantaneously effective, and consequently when the eye beholds it, that eye will almost automatically shudder and blink twice. Back of the door, in "University 4," uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than...