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...Bean was frightened and frightened persons will exaggerate. I do not feel I was guilty of carelessness. I just forgot, simply forgot, to close the door to the cobras' cage after I cleaned it. I couldn't do everything at once. All other snakes that got away were harmless except Bandy-Bandy and I'm sure he went down the drain pipe. The cobra," she added affectionately, "just found the coziest place it could in the whole reptile house. If most persons were half as nice as snakes, this world would be a better place...
...first characteristic of anyone who would even make an offer for such an organization as the Boston Braves is genuine, if harmless, eccentricity. In this respect, Buyer Marshall is eminently qualified. He is a Washington. D. C. arriviste whose ebullient social career is based upon his chain of 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries, each plastered with the slogan "Long Live Linen." Laundryman Marshall sleeps until noon every day, takes a nap before dinner, stays up most of the night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high...
Sharing none of Thackeray's prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father...
...baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve a fresh drive for "sterilization of the unfit" launched by the Party last week with the news that German Science has produced "a harmless means of sterilizing an already pregnant mother?" Adolf Hitler, according to the Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, was "away in the country." No responsible German would say where. In excited Berlin unconfirmed rumor had the Realmleader cruising among Norwegian fjords, but he escaped the notice of Norwegians. One official...
...India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every one of the 100,000 British soldiers who fought in the Boer War (1902) inoculated. Immediately thereafter (1902-07) he set up the system of therapeutic inoculations (vaccinotherapy) which can usually render bacterial infections harmless to man. One of its beneficial results occurred during the World War when of 2,000,000 U. S. soldiers inoculated before they sailed to fight in France only 488 contracted typhoid, only 88 died of the disease...