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...nights before Christmas the overcrowded Paris-to-Nancy express stopped on a red signal in a pea-soup fog 15 mi. east of Paris. At 8:15 the Paris-to-Strasbourg express hurtled at 50 m p h into it from behind, knifed the baggage car in two, plowed through four jammed passenger cars...
Cancer "Cures." Good news to enemies of quack cancer "cures" were two court actions last week. In St. Louis three years ago Mrs. G. W. Haggard discovered a pea-sized lump in her right breast. A surgeon advised an immediate operation. More attractive was the prospect held out by Drs. John E. and Edward C. Westaver, father & son, who promised a cure with their salves at $2 a treatment. After nine months in their care Mrs. Haggard died. In St. Louis medical experts testified that dallying with the worthless Westaver nostrums had cost her a chance of recovery through proper...
...beach was so rough that on several occasions I thought I was gone. ... I am not easily frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed...
...face had a Near-Eastern cast. Cases of champagne and buckets of caviar, which Mike opened when funds arrived from the Northwest, won over many from the anti-Romanoff faction. The news spread with magical rapidity through the ancient seat of learning that a new and important "green pea," or inexhaustible spender, had been discovered. The greatest of Mike's parties at the Copley-Plaza was attended by representatives of many feudal houses of Boston. The Prince put a sudden stop to his grandiose hospitality in order to punish the hotel for presenting a bill. "This is most presumptuous," said...
When a visitor comes to Kirkland House it is to the Library, lodged in the old Hicks House on Boylston Street, that he is first taken. Connected with the main quadrangle by a flagrantly pea-green covered passage, the Library fills all three floors of the attractive colonial farm-house. Here a man can climb with his book up to the low-ceilinged attic rooms and can taste the joy of seclusion before an open-fire. With all its charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection...