Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dass ich sehe, wer mich besiegt Und wer meine Uhr gekriegt!" (". . . That I may see who conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able...
...Saginaw, Mich., L. Richmond & Sons is making a 16½-ft., 60-lb. canoe...
Died. Truman Handy Newberry, 80, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 Senatorial victor over fellow-industrialist Henry Ford; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Following his photo-finish victory over Democratic Candidate Henry Ford, he was convicted of too-lavish electioneering, then exonerated, by Supreme Court reversal of a lower court decision; ten months after he was finally granted the Senate seat, he resigned it, promptly vanished from public life...
First Presbyterian Church Fairgrove, Mich...
...Boric acid, the old home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...