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...Circus de Paris moved on to Philadelphia, where a city ordinance forbids such animal turns as "Bride of the Lion." But Dr. Hamiter testified at an inquest that Dancer Cote, vexed by newspaper criticism of the lions' lethargy, had sewed a large bolt in the hem of her veil, presumably thumped George's snout with it. The troupe's manager. Eddie Pierce, announced that blameless George would continue to perform in the act, that three girls had already applied to replace Gladys Cote as his bride...
...only way I can define the difference between a Harvard and a Yale man", voiced Sally Rand as she thoughtfully adjusted the hem of her flimsy negligee immediately following her bubble dance, "is that although I have enjoyed the lovliest platonic friendship with a Harvard man, I was once engaged to a Yale man. No, I never knew a Princeton...
...tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps outward; put the two triangles together; hem the fringe of flaps together. The inside of the artery is now smooth; hence no blood clot will form there...
...gentleman with the shadowy cloak of anonymity began to hem...
...Africa. Ever since the gaudy coronation of kinky-haired Power of Trinity I as Emperor four years ago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930), the country has been a secret battleground for Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land to grow their own cotton in Abyssinia. Foreign observers believe that France and Britain are now willing for Italy to "influence" Abyssinia...