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Sirs: Reading your inimitable TIME of Nov. 28 avidly I ran across the interesting and touching "Don't you bite, Bing" on p. 22 stating the shepherd dog was found rabid, foaming at the mouth and putting the boy owners in grave personal danger. I just finished Albert Payson Terhune's article "Queer Things About Your Dog," which states, on his long experience as a breeder of prize collies, that a dog foaming at the mouth is not rabid-that a dog foams at the mouth from a number of causes, and that a rabid...
...history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie National made a whirlwind campaign to woe the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed...
...Scrooby, in Shakespearean times, when William Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order to save her soul...
...sudden appearance of purple Englishmen," Author Fort found chief interest less in single marvels than in marvelous relations and coincidence. With humorous seriousness he retells here, mostly from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from Boston; among its crew was a Portuguese called James Brown. Two of the crew were missing, were found...
...rabid Republican partisan. On the contrary I am a Cleveland-Wilson Democrat, but better than that I am a loyal American...