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Scientific Exhibits were unusually informative. Putting them up cost the A M. A. $50,000. Notable were the fresh pathological exhibit which looked and smelled like a tidy butcher shop; the exhibit on fractures with demonstrations of their proper setting and immobilizing with plaster of paris bandages or splints; the exhibit on varicose veins with local patients getting their swollen veins plugged by a solution of glucose and salt. A couple of pet Belgian hares lay comfortably tied in cradles so that an ear of each could be held under a microscope. In the lightly clamped ear was a tiny...
Henry Brown, 27 times a father, is a butcher. He retired two years ago in ill health. Of his family he said: "They're all strong and healthy, and I encourage them in taking part in clean sport and play. The cellar's full of ice skates, skis, snowshoes and other stuff for them to play with outdoors. ... It would be nice to get the money, but if we don't-all right...
...German nationalists did not ban it for home consumption as they did Carl Laemmle's picture. The framework is the friendship of four German soldiers and their varying fates. Best sequences: the soldier who goes home to find that his wife has deceived him with the butcher's helper...
Experts saw back of this sizable vote the glittering pince-nez of André Tardieu, antepenultimate Prime Minister. Pierre Laval, son of a provincial butcher, once a hot Socialist but now leaning more and more to the Right, is known to be a protégé of Tardieu, who seems unable or unwilling to form a ministry of his own at this time...
...when U. S. papers flared with stories of "Butcher" Weyler, Calixto Garcia, Maximo Gomez, the Philadelphia Bulletin sent Artist Luks to Cuba as war correspondent and illustrator. Because he was not content to gather his news at Havana cafe tables, he was arrested, imprisoned four times. "The spiggoties," says he, "slammed me into the cooler . . . put me away with the rats and the Cubans and deliberated whether to shoot me at dawn or sundown...