Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among German arch-Monarchists the events of last week inspired a slogan: "Ballots for Bullets!" None but such ramrod-backed lantern-jawed die-hards believed that the 45,000,000 Germans who abstained from voting last week will ever ballot Wilhelm back upon the throne from which he was brought down by bullets...
Rats smoked in California. They were experimental subjects of Physiologist Hazel Field at the state university, who studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
...presentation of U. S. maids and matrons, daughters and wives either of members of the diplomatic corps or of intrinsically potent fathers, husbands. By special dispensation of the Lord Chamberlain, these gentlemen were permitted?for the first time?to peer from the door of an anteroom upon the ceremony. None were themselves presented...
...wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping, hard-hitting leather-pusher that he was when he qualified as a challenger. Critics eyeing his flabby lethargy toward the end of the encounter muttered: "Overtrained!" None disputed the decision given Berlenbach, even in newspapers of Stribling's native Georgia...