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...took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...
Theses that have been published in the past are "Poetical Intexication", by W. N. Bates '30, "Shakespeare and the Ireland Forgeries", by Derk Bodde '30, "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan", by Robert Peel '31. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers...
Wine is fermented, brandy and whiskey are distilled, but vermouth, like tea, is steeped. Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards drink it straight or dilute it with soda, lemon peel or various fruit juices...
...cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...
...blatant Anti-Corn Law Association led by Propagandist Richard Cobden so alarmed the Tories that Tory Sir Robert Peel was put in as Prime Minister especially to guard their interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...