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...real sequence from the last war. One, after watching for some time, politely informed the director that the sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone has a guerrilla role...
Discovered at approximately ten minutes after nine by Billie Greney, night watchman of Lowell House the conflagration was extinguished by 9:25 o'clock. The cause is as yet undetermined, but evidence points to either a lighted cigarette butt, or, possibly to a short circuit. If it was the latter, the fire started at exactly ten of nine, since that was when Thomas's electric clock stopped...
...Martha is the matriarch of a dynasty of daughters and sons. "I was a fast-breedin' woman," she says with dignity. One daughter, Adrenna, was "shingle-butted, but what there was of butt stuck out sharply. She was a femme fatale. . . ." She could seduce any man she wanted. "I'se always taught my girls," said Aunt Martha, "to mind they manners with the men. But I'se told 'em too, does you do wrong, now mind, does you, and you gets kotched-be lady enough to bring the child into the world...
...lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...
...butt for dreary jests, a homely beast to look upon, the U.S. mule-4,500,000 strong-is again coming into his own. Farmers, threatened with a tractor shortage, are buying mules. The U.S. Army is getting set to bargain for more than 15,000. Dealers in such mule marts as Memphis and East St. Louis, Ill. think a mule boom is in the making...