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Prohibition, livest subject in a lifeless convention, was utterly ignored by Keynoter Dickinson-a possible indication that the G. O. P., regardless of platform declarations, would shy from the issue in the national canvass...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...World") set up headquarters in Birmingham, Ala. and took over its latest emergency parenthood. This time the crippled, homeless and dead-residents of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina*-were victims of a series of mighty whirling winds that rose out of the West and struck 362 lifeless. Houses and shanties of 8,500 persons were plucked bursting into the air or smashed to kindling. It was estimated that some 3,000 people had been injured in the deadly scattered blasts which began devastating Dixie in the late afternoon, lasted all night. Property damage was reckoned at more than...
...rifle shot from the posse caught him in the leg. The giant reeled, fell, crawled behind a tree and opened fire once more. The posse returned his fusillade. When the echoes died out among the cold hills the lieutenant approached. Behind the tree the great brown figure lay lifeless, his blood melting dark holes in the soft snow. A week after the wild man's first startling appearance, he was sledged back to North Creek, interred with his secret history...
...There Goes the Bride. Incorrigible, bandy-legged Charles Winninger is the comedian. The music is the most ambitious attempt of Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums...