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...Manhattan pre-showing of their stylish new Frigidaire (icebox) which "costs no more to run than one ordinary electric light bulb," Albert Einstein, on his way to Switzerland (instead of anti-Jew Germany) for the summer, got down on hands & knees to inspect the machine thoroughly, called it a "marvel," said it would be welcome in Europe where electricity is far dearer than...
...South American B. O. M.'s marvel that Mr. Duguid could have held, successfully, a 15-ft., struggling anaconda while his companion, wearing heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
...valuable and decent thing to write English correctly, and with a proper regard for its extraordinary beauties," Mencken said. "If I were the editor of a daily newspaper I would certainly insist that even the sports pages be written for better than they are. I sometimes marvel that Americans are so insensitive to the gross abuse of their mother tongue. Certainly such a magazine as Time, if it were printed in England, would be denounced violently for its apparently deliberate degradation of the language...
...unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps the author of "Mucedorus," the Edgar Wallace of his time, never aspired to Valhalia. . . Let us summon from Limbo instead the wraiths of John Gower, quondam peer of Chaucer; and of Stephen Hawes, his disciple: let us read the "Lament for the Makirs," and marvel...
...Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...