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...Baby. "His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still, en Brer...
Most thoroughgoing newspaper in the world is the august New York Times. Last week on a financial page appeared hilt-high proof of its claim to that title. Under the headline CALL LOANS IN JUNE HELD AT 4% RATE appeared a story beginning: "Call Loan rates on the New York Stock Exchange were at H per cent throughout all of June. . . . The renewal average for call loans in June was 1.500 per cent. . . ." Below came a complete, full-length table showing the % call loan rate on each & every one of June's 30 days, arranged in this manner: June...
Does anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...
...Allen strode to the door of Capt. Delaplace, British commandant, rapped thrice with his sword hilt. When Capt. Delaplace, surprised in his nightshirt, opened the door, Col. Allen exclaimed loudly: "I order you instantly to surrender...