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Mayor Curley, sensible of this deficiency, has made the keys to Boston more than a pretty sentiment. He has builded his key in three parts, which together make a gesture of hospitality; and severally, prove to be a corkscrew, a pencil, and a comb. These adjuncts begin their work where other keys leave off. The corkscrew takes its guest past the portals to the very bosom the city, the pencil enshrines names and telephone numbers in his address-book, and the comb wishes him God-speed the morning after...
Only ornament: large shell comb...
Bacon's Crew--Stroke, Bacon; 7, Robert Saltonstall '33; 6, Webster; 5, Mal- comb Bancroft '33; 4, M. M. Johnson, Jr. '31; 3, J. M. Erickson '32; 2, Captain J. W. Hallowell '31; Bow, A. L. Nickerson, Jr. '38; Cox, F. S. Holmes...
Customs Inspector John Sterling, whose duty it is to comb for drugs all ships arriving in Manhattan from the Orient, paused beside the British motor-freighter Raby Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce...
...Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening to other people...