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...embroider; he has tried them from ostriches' to pigeons'. The Kahn method is first to blow the egg, then to drill thousands of minute holes through the shell, to run colored threads through the holes to form the design. No thread transfixes the entire egg; every, knot and thread end is made on the inside of the shell...
...form or another, catching fish has always been Mr. Thompson's hobby. The once-mighty Capone is contemplating the stripes in his new suit, while his henchmen maintain bread-lines from the profit of their labors. The city has six hundred fifty thousand unemployed, and a financial Gordian knot which has yet to find its Alexander. Whatever its future may bring, history will record that in the decade which has just closed Chicago was preeminent for public vulgarity, organized corruption and imbecility in high place...
...knot wind blew on the starboard quarter of a Pan American Airways flying boat on the regular Cristobal-Miami run one day last week. The crew and two passengers were thankful to be up in the gusty sky instead of down on the surface of the Caribbean which still writhed and tossed from a whipping by a three-day gale. About 100 mi. short of Barranquilla, Colombia, first stop on the plane's northering flight via Jamaica, Pilot Frank Ormsbee saw something that made him nose rapidly down toward the water...
...When the plane touched water after being lowered from the deck of the Hermes, the four-knot current swept the plane sidewise and tipped it until one wing went under and the plane tilted to about 90°. Mrs. Lindbergh attempted by pressing a lever to inflate a collapsed rubber life belt she was wearing. The belt failed to inflate and, appearing quite unperturbed, she followed the instructions of Colonel Lindbergh and dove into the water. . . ." (Consul General Walter Adams to the U. S. State Department...
Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand emerged from a cabinet meeting in the Elysée Palace last week in high good humor. A little knot of passersby, a few photographers were waiting for them. The pockets of the Prime Minister's neat blue suit bulged with strange objects. While shutters clicked there were impolite but audible comments on what was in them. A mousetrap? Fromage de Brie? Fishhooks...