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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beards from three sleeping notables, glue them on, enjoy a public welcome until voiceless Harpo, called on for a speech, stalls by drinking water from the speakers' table, washes off his beard. 3) Opera routine: At the premiere of the opera company a full symphony orchestra attempts to render Il Trovatore while the brothers run mad, trying to break up the performance so as to get the lead for Ricardo, climbing in the flies of the opera house and swinging from rope to rope so that wild pieces of scenery appear behind the singers. As a climax Groucho substitutes...
...measures, the Public Utility Act carries a "separability" clause, which provides that invalidation of one section of an act shall not affect the rest. Said Judge Coleman: "The invalid provisions of the [Public Utility] Act ... are so multifarious and so intimately and repeatedly interwoven throughout the Act as to render them incapable of separation from such parts of the Act, if any, as otherwise might be valid. . . . Invalid parts of a law may be dropped only if what is retained is fully operative as a law. In the Public Utility Act, invalid provisions are the rule rather than the exception...
...Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...
...distance between him and his followers. . . . He is not a 'good fellow.' While he is not sullen, he is withdrawn. He is not a handshaker. Hence the impulse to substitute [for handshaking] the Roman salute. . . .All these gifts have won a crown for Mussolini; guarantee his omnipotence; render it as beneficial as a Dictatorship...
...waves, short enough to transmit sufficient power to effect a magneto, could be shielded. These waves are of optical range, that is to say, their power of penetration is little better than that of light. This means that the hood of a car would be more than sufficient to render them impotent...