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...France the name "J. H. Rosny" passes for that of a talented novelist, but in Paris one knows better. When there come strolling down the leafy Champs Elysees, arm in arm, the brothers J. H. H. Boex, 71, and S. J. F. Boex, 68, then it is time to dart forward, shake their hands, and congratulate these two twinkling-eyed old gentlemen on the latest success of Novelist "J. H. Rosny...
...Approval-Polite insults dart through the dialogue when matrimony is inspected in the drawing room...
...been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind but his own controls his booming voice. This autumn he swung into Pennsylvania to herald the campaign of William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat; he is just as liable in the future to dart off to Florida to boom some progressive Republican. "Party ties rest lightly upon me," said he. "I shall be glad to work in unison with anyone, if he believes in the same progressive principles of government that I advocate. . . ." Senator Norris does not want to be a leader, but he cannot help...
...little of their dietary and conjugal habits, their birthrate and the length of their lives, the British Government is sending a ship to sea for two and a half years of whale study, it announced last week. A gun will be carried to fire, into every whale sighted, a dart carrying an identification disk. In after years, from reports by capturers of tagged whales, it is hoped to learn whether whales are polygamous or monogamous, rovers or stay-at-homes, old at 25 or young as centenarians...
...pursuit, catch him, or he it, from the rear, then settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour- ing pace while the winner's partner collected the prize money...