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...sympathetic nervous system followed by muscular contractions in legs and shoulders. But as yet no cast iron dog in a front lawn. Long since decided that some doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother. For this extract will not help such as I either in pill form or serum. Am 26, single, bulldog head, (ed) and flat feet. And when my pituitary snaps, loquacious...
Appreciative Plagiarist Carter conned periodicals, selected a daring yarn from Air Trails, fiction monthly. Last July, he sold it, retyped under the name "Fortune Flying," to Fiction House, Inc., Manhattan publishers of the magazine Wings. By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company...
...appealing story--to put it over. Forty years is a long time in the changing fashions of the stage: time has left de Koven's music untouched, but has been less kind to the book, and only by the most violent efforts can William Danforth as the Sheriff extract an adequate amount of humor from his part...
...Tarboro, N. C., one George Jenkins became reconciled with Olivia Morgan. In a spat, he had beaten her, knocked her down, tried to extract from her mouth some gold fillings he had paid...
Argentinians were convulsed. Buenos Aires humorists chortled. To their beef-wise minds, nothing could have been more comical than making a cow out of potent Esther Bletchley Challenge, national champion bull for which Bovril Co. paid 30,000 pesos to publicize its beef extract...