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...passerby that night last week had seen a strange apparition on the side of a building. Devoutly he fell to his knees. Another, thinking he had fainted, ran to his side, knelt also as he saw the flickering blob of grey light. It was the Holy Virgin and Child! Crowds gathered in front of the building, swarmed into the yard of a Dr. J. J. Stoll, trampled his flowerbed and broke down his fence. They climbed on the roof of his garage; it caved in but they did not care, so exciting was the miracle...
Spreading a blob of mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban...
When there is a lack of cheaper free sensation-fodder for newspaper presses, how large a sum is it good business to pay for a really choice blob of pedigreed scandal...
...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...
...first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary tripe.) From the reticulum the food would pass through the third (omasum, bullock tripe) and fourth (abomasum, where milk-curdling rennet is manufactured) stomachs...