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...room screaming "Franklin, Franklin", at the top of his professorial lungs. Franklin poked his nose out from behind a can of refuse, exhibiting his magnificently scarred coat of fur and his blood clotted ears, fresh from the back alley arenas of Boston's catdom. Grabbing the beast by the nape, our host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast, and on top of both was placed a large bell jar, like the dome...
...natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers...
...that engineers may also pass, a small cart has been placed in the tunnel. Thus, lying prone on the cart, with the trolleys a few inches above the nape of his neck and the subway just below him, the engineer grasps a cable and draws himself and cart through the tunnel...
...Dunster House dining room, to see how college boys dine. A sinister conspiracy was slowly unfolded in one corner. And then a waiter, smiling villain, made for the unhappy cat, skillfully disguising his evil intentions. And now comes the horrible part. He grabbed the pleasant little visitor by the nape of the neck and strode heartlessly out into the kitchen. The Pioneers are anxiously awaiting the product of Mr. Verbeck's infernal machine...
Cardinal Mundelein placed the Book of the Gospels on the nape of the neck of the prostrate prelate. Bidding him rise to his knees, the Prince of the Church imposed his hands and said: "Receive the Holy Ghost." He twice prayed: "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed. . . ." Then & there Rt. Rev. William David ("Willie"') O'Brien became a bishop, auxiliary of Chicago and titular of Calinda. Later, taking crozier (crook), Episcopal ring, Book of Gospels, mitre and gloves he walked with his consecrators through the Cathedral, blessing his flock, returning to the altar to utter thrice...