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...Author. Daughter of a Congregational minister in Hawarden, la. (she was born in 1893). Ruth Suckow was a writing child. After she was graduated from the University of Denver she taught there for a while, then took to beekeeping. For six years she was manager-owner of the Orchard Apiary at Earlville, la., ran it at a profit. Henry Louis Mencken, then co-editor of Smart Set, bought her first stories, which pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married...
...fortnight ago Sir Arthur Keith remarked: "Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning and war is her pruning hook." This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
Prosaic inhabitants of the small Idaho towns of Bovill, Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orchard, Juliaetta and Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing...
...session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced...
Near Peshawar, key city of the Khyber Pass, gateway to northern India, a patrol of the 17th Poona horse (Indian) rode last week through the sun-speckled fruit orchards. From somewhere rifles cracked. Six troopers dropped from their saddles. The rest wheeled, galloped back to barracks. British officers wasted no time, for they knew what the shots in the orchard meant. In five minutes bugles were blowing, cavalry, artillery were mounting, galloping out of town. At Peshawar's air station, 54 Royal Air Force pilots climbed into their planes, roared up into the blue...