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...Tutt. Last week, Tarheel voters gave the Democratic senatorial nomination, and thus the election, to Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced hooey), 66, a Southern gentleman with flowing locks and black claw-hammer coat, who looks like Arthur Train's lawyer, Mr. Tutt...
...Tooth & Claw. In Newton, Mass., six-month-old C. Melvin Grindrod swallowed a bell, bit the doctor's fingers with his new teeth, maintained the bite until given a whiff of ether...
They had to claw their way along a mountainous, broken front of 20 miles. In the north the French, under Tunisian veteran General Alphonse Pierre Juin, drove the Germans from Mount Ferro (3,500 ft.), Mount Pagano (3,600 ft.) and Mount Pile (3,700 ft.). They slid into the village of Acquafondata, gained a hold on one of four roads to Cassino. In the central-southern sector, U.S. and Canadian soldiers took Mount Porchia (where 16 stretcher-bearers were killed), Mount Capraro, Mount Trocchio, the strongly held village of Cervaro. From Trocchio, they overlooked Cassino itself. They rushed down...
...customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work in: 1) a Sam Browne belt, 2) a .38 automatic (with three extra clips of cartridges), 3) an iron-claw in a scabbard, 4) a blackjack, 5) a pair of handcuffs, 6) a "very shiny" gold badge, 7) ("on extra busy nights") a 24-in. police club in one hand and a flashlight in the other. His ushers also spread "a little propaganda" through the neighborhood "regarding how 'tough...
Despite its homely familiarity, when money goes abroad it cloaks itself in mystery. The present generation has seen this mystery in its darkest phase. It has seen the franc bloat and the mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...