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...grocery store windows were tattered signs: SOLD OUT. Two days before, butchers had hung up their bloody aprons to go home for the weekend. They did not return to take them down. If they had, there would have been no meat for them to chop. Milk and bread wagons made infrequent deliveries. A private family in San Francisco stood a good chance of going hungry if it had not laid in plenty of supplies. Once in a while a doctor's car went by, with its card authorizing its owner to buy gas at a few "accredited" depots. Visitors...
...match on Sunday. Miss Round won the first set. 6-2. Miss Jacobs won the second, 7-5. There was a moment in the third when Miss Jacobs needed only one point to lead at 3-1. When Miss Jacobs came to the net behind a weak forehand chop and Miss Round lobbed neatly over her head, it gave the English girl the confidence to run out set and match...
...rest have completed their terms. A new trial with three new defendants will be held as soon as the People's Court is organized. The defendants, all Communists, are Peter Stoll, tailor; Solly Einstein, painter; Hans Ziegler, barber. Object of the trial is not only to chop the heads off Peter, Solly and Hans, but to produce witnesses who will swear to the upright and lofty character of Horst Wessel and Lucie, once of the Alexanderplatz...
...Goff replied, "Let me feed your dogs for a few weeks and I'll guarantee their coats will improve." With his wife's kitchen knives, his baby's weighing scales, his gardener and $15 worth of meat, he retired to his garage. The gardener helped chop the meat and Mr. Goff took it around to neighbors' kennels. Their tongues and their dogs' coats were all the advertising he needed. By last week Mr. Goff was occupying a two-story brick building in leafy Ardmore, paying 13 men & women some $250 per week to prepare...
...cottage, a fine house near Buffalo, where he was living last week. How much money he has left, he refuses to say. He often visits the factory where his old friends work, owns a shabby car in which he goes on solitary hunting trips. *His hasenpfeffer: Use cottontail rabbits. Chop meat into quarters. Put meat in pickling and leave for three days. Cut onions in small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate pan. then add to onions and flour. Add "stock." Stir in a small amount of strained...