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...proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...
...Socialists and Communists took place in Paris at two meetings. At one, Millionaire Deputy Leon Blum, Socialist, was hit in the face by a wine glass and knocked practically senseless. Several of M. Blum's colleagues were also roughly treated. A Communist, armed with the legbone of an ox, stamped around the meeting room, shouted that he wanted "the whole world to bleed...
...real reason for writing is to say how much I appreciate TIME after several months' reading of it. I am amused occasionally at some of the criticisms of other subscribers- the most amusing being those by someone whose ox has apparently been gored. I do not recall any weekly magazine, or monthly, either, for that matter, which has ever given so good a digest of current news, except, in a measure, The Independent, a number of years ago when it ran a weekly department of about eight pages in which it digested the week's news, but even...
...Story is of minor importance. Matthias Boryna was a man of substance, full of years but unbowed by them, strong as an ox, hard as a rock. In 60 odd years as a husbandman, Boryna had buried two wives; but the death of his second left him not averse to yet another union particularly as things were not going well on his land. His favorite cow died. His children, married and single, were ever on the watch for what they could...
Results. Cows and monkeys inoculated with "BCG" remained uninfected for 18 months, 1) when left for weeks in contact with other animals strongly infected with tuberculosis, 2) when given intravenal application of virulent bacilli capable of killing an ox in two months...