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...whom had done gallant War-time service. Most pitiable were two photographs of a famished, broken-kneed old black mare which had once seen proud service with the nth Hussars, a bay cavalry gelding with "all his joints gone and very lame in the near-fore and near-hind." They were two survivors of 80,000 British Army horses and mules sold by the British Government to Belgium in 1919, put to work in mines, hitched to produce-wagons and canal-barges. Coming on these pictures most Britons were more convinced than ever that "no damned Froggie knows...
...commanded by Queen Elizabeth to "annoy the King of Spain in his Indies,"red-bearded little Francis Drake put out from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste...
...relaxed was Government disapproval of smutty books and pictures. Last week a jury in Judge Moscowitz's court found Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Roth, operators of the Golden Hind Press, Black Hawk Press and Fifth Avenue Book Shop, guilty of distributing obscene matter. Last' week Post Office inspectors sought to break up "obscene correspondence clubs," some of which have thousands of members mailing one another filthy pictures, erotic books...
...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...
...over Woodbridge, Hungarian housewives were soon gabbling in terror. According to the New York Times, doors and windows were locked & barred. The Times reported that Mrs. Czinkota had been observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported...