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...long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...
...Darkness came on so early in the afternoon that the second half was played under flood lights. In a cold, steady rain, the game remained partially concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march, one on Cliff Battles...
...their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city with a motorcycle escort. Even President Vargas was startled by the U. S. President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme c'est joli!" exclaimed Linguist Roosevelt, indicating the rounded dome of Sugar Loaf Mountain...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...
...Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without explaining why she had come: "She just popped in, popped around...