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Forty-eight years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine...
...speaker's lips. But the lip-reader's vocabulary must contain the words spoken him. No one can read from another's lips words he does not know.* Some two dozen lip-readers held a tournament at the conference. But because the lip, like the hand, can be quicker than the eye, none made perfect scores. "Prohibition is a noble experiment" looked like "Prohibition is a local experiment." "Do you prefer long skirts or short ones" looked like "Do you prefer fresh water or salt water." Contest winner was Evelyn A. Parry of Manhattan...
...Passed a bill providing that no alien may be disbarred from U. S. citizenship for having withdrawn his citizenship papers in order to obtain quicker discharge from the Army after the Armistice...
...know how to give a suspect, Peter Kuerten confessed to some seven murders and six attacks on Düsseldorf women and girls. Since this would account for more than half the "vampire crimes," the police called it a day, gave their well-badgered prisoner a rest. Said he: "The quicker I lose my head now, the happier I shall...
Booby Trap. So pleased were Frenchmen last week with their new high tariff scheme that they sought to get its benefits at once, quicker than the Chamber of Deputies could debate and pass the bill...