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John's companions were dogs-scads of them, all the imaginable cur-mixtures. In summer he would come into Pawhuska-Osage capital- choose a sunny spot at a principal intersection and curl up on the sidewalk to sleep, a heavy blanket keeping off flies and scorching sunrays. His dogs would curl up about him to doze or to snarl and snap at passersby. Once, the city dog-catcher captured his pets and shot them. John disappeared for a few weeks, then returned to town with more dogs than ever...
...nose is 2 in. wide. His hands are a foot long. His fingers are double jointed and, comments Dr. Humberd, "curl themselves up in bizarre positions and assume ungainly and gruesome postures." His feet "are disproportionally large and he is very flatfooted. His toes are misshapen...
AMERICA: A REAPPRAISAL-Harold E. Stearns-Hillman Curl ($3). Vociferously sunny testaments to the American way of life, by the famed longtime Paris expatriate, author of The Street I Know...
...magazines" produced by Miss Lowell and her childhood companions at the age of ten to fourteen. One of these, entitled the "Sevenels Gazette," was presented in handwriting, and contained a story, "The Bloody Hand," together with several advertisements, such as "Wanted! A Gentleman to clean knives, whose moustaches curl up not down, and who has no objection to being called Alphius...
...Small particles like dust, fortuitous aggregations of molecules and droplets of water tend to deflect short wave lengths of light which approximately "fit" them, while longer wave lengths curl around these small obstacles. Long infra-red rays go farther through fog than visible light and still longer radio waves can go through buildings. In the visible spectrum, blue light is shorter in wave length than red. In the case of the evening sun, the blue components are scattered in all directions, and this subtraction makes the sun look red. But the blue light is scattered again & again in the atmosphere...