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...people hate and fear the K. of C. as a subversive organization, believe implicitly in a famed, tingling "great and fake oath" which, they think, binds the Knights to battle Protestantism. In reality the order is mild and charitable: its meetings, with baseball games, dancing, parades, are no more noxious than those of any other U.S. fraternal order...
...Washington the State Department filed a complaint with the Canadian Government against rum-runners from Nova Scotia who had disabled a pursuing Coast Guard crew off Nantucket last month by putting chemicals into their motors, spraying a noxious smoke screen from the exhaust. Rum chasers hereafter will carry gas masks...
Both the Mayor of Cardington and the Vicar protested that they had no authority to remove the noxious, disintegrating mass. But not in vain were Buffalo protests. Last week it was reported that the Air Ministry had cleaned up the mess...
...much point in giving them the protective tariff of a flat charge per week. While they are still in the infant industry class protection in the form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis, men still do not want to eat often enough in the halls to make them self supporting on a per meal basis, the whole idea of University dining halls should be done away with, unless the University is willing...
Zonite Flayed. Makers of Zonite, chlorine disinfectant popular with women, recommend it for dandruff, wounds, ulcerations, pimples, boils, eruptions, sinus troubles, sore throat, noxious body odors, halitosis, and various other conditions. The Government decided that this was saying too much for a solution of sodium hypochlorite yielding approximately 1 % of available chlorine. Zonite was declared misbranded. Its merits as an antiseptic for some conditions are tacitly admitted...