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Last week the three strangers who invaded Gladys of Marlborough's mansion said they were private detectives, implied that their employer was the Duke. They cut off the electricity, gas and telephone. Then they locked themselves in the basement rooms which include the larders and pantries. Friends of the Duchess, made curious by the telephone operator's explanation that Her Grace's telephone had been temporarily suspended, called to investigate. They returned with provisions, helped her cook meals on an oil stove. In the basement the three detectives lurked, presumably living off the fat of the Marlborough...
...Pisculli's medical kit were a hypodermic needle, a stethoscope, smelling salts, lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...
...think there are facts we don't know and that propositions are true or false. The cat may be stealing the fish whether I catch her in the larder or not. The propositions of mathematics are not invented, but discovered as America was discovered...
...Mississippi carrying instructors who teach the Negro farmer how to improve his farm, his wife how to manage the farmhouse. Tuskegee attempts to better the quality of local livestock: it will swap a pedigreed cow, chicken, hog with a farmer, take in exchange his meaner stock for its larder. Tuskegee sponsors the only clinic in the U. S. where Negro doctors may meet and discuss their special problems; last week 300 Negro physicians & surgeons attended the annual meeting...
...rich larder of documents, reports, memoirs, novels on the War and its aftermath which future historians must digest, a new titbit was added last week. William Randolph Hearst's able, convivial...