Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a yarn making the rounds here on how a hilarious sailor strolled down a street in Guantanamo City singing "Me and My Shadow." He was arrested and spent a night in the Hotel De Callaboose. The police, it seems, thought he was making fun of Machado.
"I am willing to hold a plebiscite here and now," he announced, "on the issue of whether Greece shall remain a republic."
"Be skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is...
THE CRIMSON CIRCLE-Edgar Wallace -Doubleday, Doran ($2). Only Heaven and his publishers know how many literary offspring have been produced by the prolific pen of Author Edgar Wallace; it is said that he has lost count. Here is another one to confuse his reckoning and to delight Wallace fans...
This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report...