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Here they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under...
...release. One booth contained the famed Tail Waggers Club (TIME, Nov. n), which offered a dog ensemble, complete from military brushes to overcoat, to the most popular dog in the show, to be decided by public vote. Lord Baltimore, a pekingese. won the outfit. Agents were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long rows of cages, following taciturn judges who pointed metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled...
Tadjikistan, both strategically and commercially important, abuts on Afghanistan and China, produces not only cotton but gold, coal, oil, iron, zinc and pigeon-blood rubies. Intensive field work by smart agents of Dictator Stalin caused Tadjiks to increase the area of their cotton fields from a mere 4,900 acres in 1917 to 240,000 acres this year. Meantime at the Moscow Government's expense 140 miles of railway are under construction in Tadjikistan, together with 312 miles of highways, 60 medical dispensaries, twelve modern hospitals...
Score--Andover 6, Harvard 1933 0, Touchdown--Broaca, Referce W. R. Higgins, Umpire Steve Maboney, Field Judge--Edward Pigeon. Head Linesman--Nicholas Callahan. Time Four 10 minute periods...
Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...