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...vacations, permanent waves, a pint of beer in the evening-had disappeared. To some it meant cutting necessities from their budgets. Bachelors talked of marrying widows with large families to take advantage of the $200-per-child annual exemption. Engaged girls wondered whether to get married, since, by a quirk of the law, unmarried couples living together get $40 more exemption than married ones. All other British wage-earners chewed the tops of pencils, figured, pulled long faces...
...brain, whether by tumor, abscess, infection, gunshot wound, shell splinters, or other accidents. Certain clusters of brain cells discharge electrical impulses to the muscles at an abnormal rate. This produces writhing and twitching. A tendency toward epilepsy runs in families; this may be due to some small quirk in the brain formation, together with an abnormal metabolism, faulty water balance, etc. Since electroencephalograms (charts of the electric waves discharged from the brain) can detect epileptic tendencies, some epilepsy experts suggest that all young couples about to be married have their heads examined...
Another thing the U.S. liked about the new Chief Justice was that he was not colorful. Only quirk attributed to him: he has a secret door built in the bookcase of the library of his Washington home, ducks through it when he sees unwelcome visitors coming up the street. But he is sociable by nature and seldom uses his secret door. Said he last week of his new job: "It is the kind of recognition any man would appreciate, but the responsibility is so great that it doesn't create any sense of elation...
However, a quirk in the Massachusetts law allows a student who can prove that he is supported practically entirely from a scholarship or from a trust fund and that he was in the state six months ago (May 5) can register and vote as a citizen of the Commonwealth...
...Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...