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Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read...
...Moissac on the Tarn, Guillaume Durand, sabot-maker, saw his wife and three relatives drown while he stood on a wall with two children on his shoulders. In the nave of the village church were piled 100 corpses. On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers clung to a treetop for 33 hours, during which time the woman gave birth to a child. Seriously damaged was the Bordeaux wine country-hundreds of vineyards in Sauternes, Barsacs, whence sweet white wines, were uprooted...
...presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson preaches of Sundays-that, in fact, its finest pavings are the stones of genius...
Queen Wilhelmina. So sunk were the Creditor Powers in the slough of their quarrel that Dr. Stresemann's protest was utterly ignored. The Conference did not get back on the highroad of common sense until a jolly royal banquet had been tendered to all concerned by sensible, buxom, motherly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...
Cows. In Cranford, N. J., two mild cows stepped into the middle of a highroad and fell asleep. For one hour, motorists coaxed, kicked, whistled, roared, cursed, stroked. The two would not budge. At last three men who were friends of the cows came by. They-the chief of police, the supervisor of the school, the principal of the school-per- suaded the comfortable cows to leave the smooth, warm surface of their roadbed...