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Pending the hearing of this burlesque claim Luther lives happily at home with Sis, works out for a poor white farmer, John Sprouse. John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl...
John, as the Duke of Charmerace, not seriously hampered by a heronie, is free to roam the boulevards of Paris at night in evening clothes, and although he is never actually seen committing his crimes, we are at once made to understand that this suave, pleasant gentleman is capable of typing up butlers, cracking safes, and calling out droves of police cars and motor cycles with the inevitable sirens...
Officials of Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library were used to the sallow, bespectacled little man who habitually smoked a corncob pipe. Because he said he was preparing himself to be a professor they let him roam the library as much as he liked. Last week they became sharply conscious of Joel Clifton Williams, 49, of Dedham. Mass. He was under arrest, charged with pilfering 1,804 books worth $15.000 from Widener Library...
Author Raynolds' tale is of two brothers, men of stature and sinew, who roam together through the Western U.S. forests and are devoted to each other. The indeterminate time is laid somewhere in the 19th Century, well before civilization had made romance an undesirable alien. But Author Raynolds, though he is at some pains to set a convincing forest-&-wilderness scene, is not concerned with being historically accurate. The Brothers talk sometimes like minor prophets and sometimes like sophomores; but you don't mind: it is all a kind of legend, with a good enough yarn to carry...
...ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When not being clipped he is apt to roam about, find sport (not supposed escape from danger) in burrowing his head into sand and pebbles. Generations and generations of ostriches have passed on the information that pebbles are essential to their digestion. When approached or frightened during such relaxation he will make off at great speed. Most of the feathers...