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...next woman who tries to dart through Adolf Hitler's special guards and kiss Der Führer, as powerful Mrs. Carla George de Vries of Norwalk, Calif, did fortnight ago, may very well be shot down in her tracks, according to last week's Berlin dispatches. For their failure to halt the first woman who has publicly kissed Herr Hitler on the mouth since he became Chancellor three years ago, several of the Dictator's hulking Schutzstaffel guards were dismissed in disgrace last week, several more were demoted in rank and the number...
...Morgan's neuritis was real misery. In this ailment the nerves become inflamed. Those most often affected are the great nerves in arms and legs. Sharp pains dart along them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis...
Philosopher Hawkesworth argues that no one can tell where any galaxy is now because it takes millions of years for its light to reach astronomers on Earth. Astronomers cannot even locate the galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration...
...that opinion should prove to be erroneous . . . I shall favor a constitutional amendment. . . ." To the declaration for a "sound currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension of civil service, he added a special dart aimed at Postmaster Farley, weakest joint in Franklin Roosevelt's armor: "There should be included within the merit system every position in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major departments and agencies, and . . . this inclusion should cover the entire Post Office Department...
Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...