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...container marked Veritable Benedictine D. 0. M., taken from the shopwindow, was found exactly to resemble the French original in bottle and labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used...
...which conflates in no way his university career. In its present stage the Junior Training Unit is extremely attractive as a solution of some of the outstanding evils of existing vocational systems. It is an experiment as yet, but as such it deserves an enthusiastic reception rather than a faint indictment...
...smells are not repugnant to the slightly beaked nose of His Excellency General Ismet Pasha, now for the third time Prime Minister of Turkey, onetime victorious Commander-in-Chief on the Turkish western front in the odoriferous war with Greece. Last week bristling General Ismet decided to flay the faint, insipid, artificial perfumes which Turkish ladies buy with the guarantee: Fresh, and Direct from Paris. Said Ismet with a soldier's scornful snort: "The Government will consent no longer to having the daughters of Turkey perfumed with expensive foreign extracts...
...last chapter of the book describes a hanging in San Quentin prison. Two of the onlookers, both big men, topple over in a faint while the prison doctor listens to the slowing beat of the hanged man's heart. The prisoner has left a letter for the Warden, protesting his innocence: on the margin he had scrawled: "This is true, so help me God. Just a few minutes...
...Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase would give Maupassant too much credit...