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...score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point or two by the judges. Last week's winners: stocky James Bremner of Kearny, Pipe-Major John MacKenzie of Brooklyn, Piper Ed mund Tucker of Manhattan...
...discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team. The chief engineer left for the Nome gold fields, and on Christmas, after gifts had been exchanged, the mate blacked a steward's eye, whereupon another steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles behind them), that the company had gone bankrupt. They were all jailed for piracy...
Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
...Queen changes herself into a witch. Unlike the original Grimm Brothers' Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which...
...translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal arches and paper streamers to choke the main streets of Cairo, and this was the sum its civic fathers proudly spent. Everywhere one looked was green- the Egyptian national color-everywhere the flag of Egypt, green with a white crescent and three white stars...