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...last half of the second stanza, which last week caused Mr. Snowden to take refuge in the tune, is (when mis chievously interpreted, as no loyal sub ject should think of doing) an explicit intimation that the King is not even smart enough to get himself out of petty political scrapes...
...less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that the picture could hardly mis-fire...
Dive, A Royal Air Force flying boat carrying twelve men swooped in for a landing at Plymouth Sound last week. Mis judging his altitude, the pilot crashed the surface steeply at 70 m.p.h. Nine were killed...
...spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized in the subject, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., vindicates Du Chaillu's account on the basis...
...very much surprised to read an article in the March 10 issue of TIME, under the heading of Medicine, which conveyed a very definite mis- impression as to who was the discoverer of the process by which whey and cheese may be recombined to form a very palatable and health cheese product...