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...Burlington, N. J., Etiquettical Emily Post made a political speech. Conceding President Roosevelt "a beautiful radio voice and social charm," she nevertheless raised her cultivated accents for tousled, frog-hoarse Candidate Wendell Willkie...
...secret of Medicine Man Gill, a handful of scientists and a jungleful of witch doctors. Others will have to be satisfied with the poetry of the translated Indian names of the plants that yield the poison - the thick-gold-stick; the toucan-tongue; the vine-which-is-like-a-frog; the magic-stick- that-grows-beside-big-waters; roots from the plant-which-talks-in-the-wind...
Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Ewing, cancer cells are very like normal cells in growth and structure. (This opinion was amplified last week by Pathologist Balduin Lucke of the University of Pennsylvania, who planted cancer cells in a frog's eye, studied the cell growth under a microscope. Cancer tissue, said Dr. Lucke, does not bloom wildly, but spreads "in definite, well-defined patterns...
...signs all point to the conclusion that the battleship boys are playing on current fears to puff out their chests like Aesop's frog who burst trying to look like a bull. Our navy is now adequate for defense, and even Admiral Taussig doesn't claim it should be anything else. Americans love newsreel shots of new battleships, but Ann Sheridan is just as photogenic and not nearly so expensive...
Franklin Roosevelt jammed his broad-brimmed soft felt down over his thinning grey hair, hooked the top frog of his officer's boat-cloak, came ashore at Pensacola...