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...Manhattan. Gadabout Manville explained he had paid his wife $200,000 to go off quietly to Reno and abandon her plans to nick him for $1,000,000. Burbled he: "I like to do things in a businesslike...
...Japanese subjects in batches what they are to think and are not to think. In Japan this is only a re-introduction of such measures as were taken in 1649 when the State issued an edict minutely instructing peasants upon such points as the imperative necessity of divorcing a gadabout wife. Since 1928, police have arrested some 60,000 Japanese on the charge of "thinking Dangerous Thoughts." The 22 Thought Control Offices came as a kind of relief, providing centres more comfortable than jails in which docile Japanese may learn what thoughts to have...
...author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds...
...ornate Palais Bourbon, confidence in Premier Laval grew like a great political snowball last week. With his stay-at-home wife and his gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval...
Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore was flying over Southern Egypt last week on his gadabout trip from England to Cape Town...