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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan silkworms breed twice a year (April-May & July-August), in most other countrie-where they are raised, only once. In parts cf India and China breeding is almost continuous, but quality of the silk degenerates as hatchings increase...
Dutifully the five sons of the late Arthur Cromwell, New York farmer, filed into a Manhattan hospital last week and had their tonsils removed. Thus they carried out his deathbed wish. He died from an infection, cf which severe tonsillitis was the first recognizable stage...
...sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration's whole farm program. Ohio's Senator Fess attacked the party loyalty cf Idaho's Senator Borah. Senator Borah struck back, accused Senator Fess of being the President's political slave (see p. 10). Disturbed, the President summoned Senator & Mrs. Borah to the White House for Sunday luncheon. Senator Fess he invited for Sunday supper. Senator Borah went away smiling...
...Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas...
Generally speaking, Britons maintain their dining and living rooms at irregular temperatures, often much below 60, and millions cf British bedrooms are never heated. Hence warming pans full of hot coals are slipped up and down between glacial sheets before the sleeper snuggles...