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Evening editions of German papers brought the blow: Adolf Hitler had decreed that the term of conscripts in the German Army should be upped from one year to two, thus enlarging it from 600,000 to 800,000 at minimum estimate, and making every Frenchman gulp with alarm. It appeared to all European military experts that the German infantry machine was being put on a footing more powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion...
...telling which is the real Glourie. Pallette, the grocery magnate, setting his stronghold, complete with ghost, in a tropical grove with gondolas in the moat, will send you back for a look at your "Robber Barons" to see how old J. P. used to buy up Italy at a gulp. The ticker-tape welcome of the ghost to Broadway almost persuaded us that Roosevelt is a dream, and Charlie Mitchell reigns in his stead...
...relief, he turned the pages of his manuscript with shaking fingers. Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally. When they did so, without looking down, the President grabbed a glass of water standing at his elbow, took a hasty gulp, then drove home his point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator...
...drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters into it, and gulp the result." Because she was lovely, and because she had a tormented understanding of the troubles of others, Gloria could live that life without losing an appealing quality that won people to her. The secret of her sins and her despair lay hidden in experiences in her childhood and girlhood...
Last December a Canadian mail-carrier, hearing echoes of this speculation, brashly sent word to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that he would fearlessly drink any amount of "heavy water." No attention was paid to him. Oslo observers last week declared that the Hansen gulp marked the first human consumption of heavy water. That was not quite true. From Germany two curious scientists recently reported drinking very dilute heavy water to mark the length of time that fluids remain in the body. But Professor Hansen's dose was the first recorded drink of heavy water...