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...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who once won notoriety and Irish votes by promising to "bust King George in the snoot" if that monarch did not mind his own business. With the submergence of Chicago's blatant Mayor in 1931, the Irish Question seemed to have become virtually extinct in U. S. politics. Last week a dying gasp was heard in the U. S. House of Representatives...
...finest antelope in Africa, the Giant Sable, an animal with the lines of a thoroughbred horse, is nearly extinct. The Nyala, once abundant, the Mountain Nyala and the Barbary Stag, have been shot down to scattered survivors...
...aard-wolf is a repulsive, hyena-like little animal which lives in colonies underground and is becoming extinct because, like the others above, it is not very good at avoiding collectors who want it for its rarity...
Novelist Booth Tarkington predicted: ''The novel and the poem may become extinct in 200 years, 100 years or in much less time. Radio and talking pictures already have displaced books in many homes and television will injure the popularity of books. There always will be books but perhaps the only books in the future will be reference books, scientific-books and research books...
...dear Alice, take the case of the extinct elephant they found in Connecticut last week. They say that species didn't survive because it didn't fit in with its environmental conditions. As the Republican party would say, 'there was a depression of the habitat.' Now the Democratic party figure there's a lesson to be learned from the elephant which they can apply to their donkey; only they choose to experiment with turkeys first. The Democrats feel that if their experiment is successful and they can fit a turkey to the average family's oven what's to stop...