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...Should an objector make trouble, the next move is 'smitzing the bogey to hinten' and 'noising the edge,' two procedures calculated to discomfit the objector and distract attention from...
...Letting of contracts for the proposed $50,000,000 naval docks at Singapore, famed British Naval Base, was postponed, last week, by His Majesty's Government, without explanation. Cynics denounced the postponement as a hypocritical gesture designed to distract attention from Britain's extreme "preparedness," at a time when the Empire is about to sign the U.S. Treaty renouncing...
...quarrel over a girl waged between Rafli, King of the Beggars, and the Caliph of Bagdad. But through it all runs the strange, sweeping play of Hassan, the Confectioner. In a rare illusive manner Flecker has told the fable of this unhappy man, himself in love. Gorgeous colors distract the eye, enchanting verse lays its spell upon the ear; it is a spectacle, but a strange rich legend that rises to something more than mere pageantry...
African and World Wars, a conscientious officer several times cited in despatches. The great honor done him, last week, may perhaps in some small measure distract his grief at the death of his son, Viscount Trematon, recently killed in a motor accident (TIME, April...
...after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME, and, upon glancing up, much...