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...Nelson started packaging a pinch of vrilium inside an ordinary two-inch-long brass cylinder. Popularly called "The Magic Spike," the cartridge was sold to people suffering from a variety of painful diseases. Nelson was always happy to explain how it worked: when the cylinder was attached to the lapel (or hung around the neck), there were "emanations" into the atmosphere for a distance of 20 feet, discouraging all sorts of disease germs. Meanwhile, the vrilium was supposed to "emanate" inward, restoring the buyer's sick body cells to normal...
...Communist and had gone underground. It was the morning after the Reichstag fire, in 1933, when the Nazis declared open season on Communists (whom they falsely accused of setting the fire). Fuchs read the story in a newspaper, riding on a train. "I took the hammer & sickle from the lapel of my coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice, listening with hard lines of patience on his face, opened the small silver box and took a pinch...
Daily at 8:30, Benny, with a red rosebud in the lapel of his jauntily cut suit, walks from his home on the fashionable Doble Via to the hospital. He spends at least two hours visiting the children and checking on such details as charcoal for the kitchen stove and nylon sutures for the operating room. Though the government pays the hospital's 22 doctors and 14 nurses, Benny buys what he calls the "extras"-a child-size operating table, modern X-ray equipment, new washing machines for the laundry. All told, he has spent some...
Efficiency Check. Canada's present unofficial hangman learned his trade and adopted his name from an earlier Hangman Ellis* who died in 1938. The earlier Ellis worked in a frock coat and striped trousers and sometimes sported a gardenia in his lapel. Occasionally he handed a stop watch to a newsman attending a hanging, so as to check on his own efficiency. His successor, an Ontario farmer, goes in for no such display...
...Deal. At 2:30 p.m. Agusti was shown to a wooden bench in a dark corridor outside the committee's door. At 6:30, when the committee members finally came out, Visca ignored Agusti's outstretched hand, seized him by the lapel and roared: "Get out of here or I will break your face!" Only a few hours earlier, Visca had seen a piece in Córdoba referring to Peronista congressmen as "inefficient drones." To emphasize his disapproval, Visca shut Córdoba down entirely...