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...previous expedition, Mr. Lake had an equally unpleasant experience. A sudden heat wave overlook him and his party far from camp. A wee nip of Scotch was proposed to lessen the ravages of climate. The suggestion was approved. A bottle was produced, opened,--and dropped with disgust. The servants had packed vinegar by mistake...
...fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint was the fact that President Roosevelt wants to get away to address on Aug. 23 the Young Democrats of America convening in Milwaukee, does not want to leave Congress in session to nip at his fast-flying political heels. It was up to Congress, therefore, to put on its best burst of speed this session if it wanted to be finished by that date. The great bulk of the New Deal program for 1935 last week lay jammed in a bottleneck...
...Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators brought scowls to swarthy brows by such appeals as: "Stop buying your gin from Italian saloonkeepers! Every shorty [nip] of gin you buy from an Italian means bullets bought by Mussolini to slaughter our brothers in Africa...
...glove in his enemy's face. Instead, he bites his opponent's ear. Enacting the role of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana at Manhattan's Hippodrome last week, Tenor Sidney Raynor's bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
...findings regarding the sums of money for which men and women will sell out their scruples. However, I heard some of our boys discussing this article, and it developed that one of them makes a practice of eating the grubs of Japanese beetles. His technique is to nip them to kill them, then swallow them without chewing them, so that he cannot describe their taste. He will eat worms for a larger consideration...