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...whom they see in the dining-hall, and even a wary glance of recognition is frowned upon. They must stand at strict attention whenever not actually engaged in serving or carrying off dishes. Any departure from the set regulations brings sharp rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement or some...
...attempt will be made to capture alive for study purposes some of the wild asses, or Kiang, which live at attitudes of 10,000 to 15,000 feet. These animals are the kind mentioned in the Bible. They roam in vast herds, are very fast and agile, and edible, and have not been domesticated...
Grand Rapids' most famed furniture man, Robert W. Irwin, chairman of the Furniture Code Authority and president of Robert W. Irwin Co., had no exhibits at the Chicago Mart. Buyers could roam its 16 floors without seeing a single stick of Grand Rapids furniture. Grand Rapids held a show of its own last week sponsored by an association of which Mr. Irwin was president for ten years. In recent years Chicago has surpassed Grand Rapids as a distributing centre and manufacturer of upholstered furniture...
...Cowboy Goodwin & wife brought an infringement suit for $500,000 against 29 music publishers, composers, authors, arrangers, broadcasting and cinema concerns. Unsued, however, were the members of the White House Portico Quartet. "An Arizona Home," William Goodwin says, goes this way: O give me a home where the buffaloes roam, Where the deer and the antelopes play. There seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the sky is not cloudy all day. The most popular version of "Home on the Range": Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play. There seldom...
...elephants, rheas taking their ease in what Britons hope will some day be the biggest, finest, most humane zoo in the world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness...