Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reichstag when one Adolf Stein, Nationalist newsgatherer, signed a story in which he graphically described how Frau Loebe allegedly eats peas, beans, spinach and other vegetables with her knife. When President Loebe learned that in retaliation for this article a subordinate Reichstag official had deprived Correspondent Stein of his card of entrance to the Reichstag, he at once interceded and caused the card to be reissued. Said Herr President Loebe, after thus turning his wife's other cheek: "Newspaper men must not be punished merely for making humorous personal attacks." Observers thought that if Frau Loebe does sometimes...
Volumes in Widener marked H. U. in the card index are kept in a mysterious place known as the Archives; from which it is very difficult to get them...
...changes in blood. Club dues continue. Last week four men set out over the difficult Mayfield course, scene of many championships, near Cleveland. A blizzard had just passed that way. Yet three hours later they plodded up from the eighteenth green, tired, satisfied, proud of scores. One had a card of 66, another 68; the other two were under 80. Par for the course...
...night. The room was an office of the Psychical Research Society. Sir Oliver asked the thinking public to think hard and write him letters later that evening, telling what the writers pictured the six prisoners doing. He gave a few hints?now the clergyman was holding up a playing card, now a layman was putting something funny on his head, now one of the ladies was exhibiting a picture. The prisoners were putting their minds on what they were doing. The test was to see if, by concentration, telepathic messages could be broadcast for able thinkers to receive...
...next few days, Sir Oliver was deluged with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually...