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...outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth. This comes when the lump appears beneath Mr. Trahan's posterior and he hastily sits down on it, thus sticking himself to the piano stool where he antics gummily in mad dismay...
Lydia Southard had a way with men She married Robert Dooley and he died. She married William Gordon McHavie and he died. She married Harlan C. Lewis and he died. She married Edward M. Meyer and he died.* After each death she collected a big lump of insurance. She was on her fifth honeymoon when she was arrested, put on trial for murder at Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1921. The State attempted to show that she was a chronic husband poisoner, did prove that she killed Meyer with a deadly fly mixture. Mrs. Southard, then 29, was sent...
...year term at $8,000 per year.* After 14 years' House service he was rewarded with this big bright plum chiefly because, as chair man of the Public Buildings Committee, he had scotched the old "pork barrel'' method of Federal construction and inaugurated the Government's present "lump sum" system of public building. To him, too, goes much credit for the extensive housing program to beautify the Federal City...
People who lump the modern French novelists as an indistinguishable group of coldly salacious virtuosos, are not only generalizing badly but forgetting Colette. Colette's novels never wander far from love, to many readers they are probably mild aphrodisiacs. But there is nothing cold or vicious about them. The people Colette is interested in are perfectly normal, perfectly "nice." Minne was a most romantic young Parisienne. When her mother thought she was doing her history lesson she was really thrilling over the newspaper account of the latest Apache gang fight. So intensely did Minne dream about becoming Queen...
What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of blood from the mouth or other body openings...