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...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...very subtle, and has always exhibited and admired intelligent forcefulness. Deliver her from Average People! Two years ago, at the age of 64, examining life as she does for "strong" ideas whether pleasant or unpleasant, she fastened upon glandular rejuvenation and wrote that gold mine in pseudoclinical vulgate, Black Oxen. Now comes the ductless glands, another "strong" idea and similarly demonstrated, if you care for that sort of thing...
...STEPCHILDREN-Sarah Gertrude Millin-Boni, Liveright ($2.00). The literature of miscegenation, as written by whites, insists that bearers of black blood are inevitably bearers of sorrow and shame. Here a black-brown-yellow sequence is put in motion -'amid veld, Boers, oxen and other carefully-selected South African atmosphere-by a gaunt, buck-toothed missionary to the Hottentots. His act is a kind of sexual piety. His seed, of whom Mrs. Millin tells with Old Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough...
...dirigible must always remain expensive; to make the gas cells tight, gold beater's skin must be used, made of the blind gut of oxen; and a herd of 50,000 is needed to supply the material for one airship; a dirig- ible hangar must be a monstrous affair, big enough to house a cathe- dral...