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...Calf...
...McLean, Va., Col. Herbert David pastured a valuable prize calf on his front lawn. A thief carried the calf away in the rumble seat of a motor car, sold it to a slaughter house for $12. Col. David found and bought it back in the nick of time...
...people. They showed their feelings last week by a frenzied all-night demonstration of relief and joy. Rumania, like the Biblical father of the prodigal son, seemed to say: "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. . . . Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry...
Yesterday we spent the time answering our neighbor's questions as to whether we really and truly were serious about all this shorts business. We even had a calf-comparing contest in which we came out very much the worst but content that if we could wear this newest in men's style, most anyone else could also...
...carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes and ran down his face. 'Ah,' he said, 'ça me fait pleurer comme un veau.' ('Ah, that makes me cry like a calf...