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Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
...this, its third sales peak period, the industry can also thank the music popularizers who lurk behind every microphone, in every film studio. First peak (365,000 sales) came in 1909, when most cultured U. S. families boasted a piano and tinkling was part of gentle breeding; second peak (343,000) in 1923, when 55% of sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin...
...archaic okapi survived in the dense Congo forests, as the primitive duck-billed platypus in benign Australia. If so, some whim or freak of circumstance brought this particular Coelacanth up from the deeps to the coastal water of South Africa. And the possibility remains that other "living fossils" may lurk in the ocean depths, awaiting the scrutiny of science if science is ingenious enough to retrieve them...
Dean Hanford has "awaited with interest" the report of the Student Council on the first-ranking bogey-man of University Hall, undergraduate housing. And, with a more vital and personal interest, so have the homeless three hundred, who now lurk in the crepuscular gloom of Little or Dudley and subsist on the weird stews of Harvard Square chefs. The Council has spoken, but like the oracles of the ancient Greeks, it has nothing...
...Vagabond, all life is one great Reading Period in which to first with frivolity and dodge the unpleasant actualities. To him all life is a prelude to the possible disaster which may lurk around any approaching corner. By sad experience he now knows there is always an examination or some other cruel testing period impending which will inscribe an icy circle around his moon or draw a thick cloud over his sunset. Life for him does not strike with fury or with the suddenness of lightning. There is no swift piercing of the heart by savage arrow. Rather...