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Birthdays. The famed morsel of live chicken heart, nurtured by Dr. Alexis Carrel in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 20; Mrs. Jeanette Lauchheimer and Mrs. Henriette Dannenbaum, twins, 100; Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, sixth son of Charles Dickens, 83; John Van Buren Thayer, vice president of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 80;* Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 79; David Lloyd George, 69; Carl Laemmle, 65; Felix Moritz Warburg...
...Father lost nothing by the fact that it was preceded by Sir James Mathew Barrie's one-act War morsel, Barbara's Wedding...
...Long ago the Vagabond learned these, when he first used to go to Fine Arts lectures. Now he has them all in his heart. He will remember them; but he will never forget to try the tests, just to make sure he isn't getting rusty. But the final morsel, which he is waiting for, comes in the Music 4 exam, next week. A few little pieces will be played, then disappear into silence. Who might have written them? What musical form are they in? Compare, or contrast...
...other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question of foreign trade and tariffs is one in which the interests of Great Britain have for the last hundred years been very different...
...horse meat is sold. A stuffed horse head hangs over the doorway, to distinguish them from "chacuteries" (pork shops) where a pig's head holds the place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively succulent morsel of horse and a comparatively gristly portion of cow there is not so marked a difference. As for dogs, they are fond of horse meat, ground up and mixed with cereal. In Rockford, Ill., Chappel Co. has a large factory devoted entirely to horses that are going to the dogs...