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...mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike...
...BLACKSHEAR WM. J. SAMFORD N. D. DENSON J. G. PALMER A. J. PEACOCK...
...Peacock and Arthurian Novels," Professor Maynadier, Sever...
...That's just exactly what Col. Lindbergh would tell him!'' Preacher Dobson-Peacock exploded. "That man Shootskoff, or whatever his name is, has tried to hinder us from the outset. He and his men attempted to prevent us from seeing Col. Lindbergh when we drove to Hopewell and his men trailed us all the way back to Norfolk. Since then we feel that we have been under constant surveillance. In order to carry on negotiations with the kidnappers we have been forced to dodge and double on our trails like common criminals...
...touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after...