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...many angels can dance on the head of a pin? How can a prosecutor prove intent to violate the Prohibition Amendment? Dancing on a legal pinhead for the past four years have been the manufacturers of fermentable grape concentrates. Federal agents have been able to count them, but not until last month were they able to threaten them...
...price of one. . . . I'll be right there with Mamma to pick up the chips and bring in the water when you elect her." He promised to "go easy" on bootleggers, repeated his wife's pledge to pardon 2,000 convicts in the State Penitentiary. He warned "Pinhead" Moody to "go back to smoking cigarets and crocheting." Crowds yelled "POUR it on, Jim" when he would declare: 'There're two candidates in this race. One is a woman with brains and no money. The other is a man with money and no brains...
...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
...Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer...
...Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked taxi-drivers; a carp-eyed spinster with a goitre like a wasp's nest...