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...Bickford) who is court physician to the potentate. The latter, a villain addicted to oily smiles and platitudes, threatens to throw her husband to the crocodiles in the palace pond. He is foiled by a combination of circumstances which includes the eruption of a volcano whose streams of lava overflow the palace. Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, thoroughly reconciled, escape in a sampan...
Cases of infantile paralysis increased from 800 to more than 1,200 in New York City last week. Most were confined to Brooklyn. But there was an overflow into Westchester County. New Haven had almost 100 cases. Boston had 20 of its own and 21 brought in from other communities. The U. S. Public Health Service found "a few more cases than usual . . . in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. But the increase was almost negligible" over the normal for summer months. Except New York, New Haven and Boston, large cities of the country were totally...
...descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they overflow into the only available reaction-laughter. But if the violence is presented through the brain of some character, in whose place the audience can stand, there is no saturation point. As a loose-jointed account of how life went on for a group of girls just behind the Front, War Nurse...
...score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn, who had led the league until their final game with St. Louis early in the week, the Cubs had won three...
...Saturday evenings or on Sunday the filters themselves can be cleaned by forcing the water back through them. Some waste will escape through the overflow, which, however, will be closed during meets to assure a quiet surface...