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...their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead it becomes a piece of hanky-panky, awkward, grotesque, unreal...
...Democratic nomination by a wide margin over New Dealer Fox, Republican Heil the Republican nomination by a still wider margin over Mr. Henry. Governor La Follette, weakly opposed by a Socialist in his own primary, won a respectable 4-to-1 victory. Although the failure of the coalition to jell gave him the advantage of another three-cornered fight in November, a new obstacle to his unprecedented fourth term appeared when the Republicans outpolled the Progressives by 60,000 votes, regained momentarily their place as Wisconsin's No. 1 party...
...read that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." She knew that pectin, the substance in fruit which causes them to jell when stewed, somehow cures diarrhea and dysentery in babies. She discovered that pectin kills bacteria in a test tube...
...purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne. London burns. The feminine plebs, weary of the Duke of Clarendon's despotism...
...world around. About 80% of Knox sales are plain gelatine, made from calves' bones mostly imported from the Argentine and processed in lime water for six weeks until the gelatine is boiled off.* In 1935, follow-ing competitors JellO, Royal Gelatin, she consented to produce flavored Knox Jell, which joined with new gelatine recipes for pie and candy to give Knox steadily increasing sales all during Depression. Knox now runs behind Jell-O and Royal in total sales, but remains tops in sales of plain gelatine...