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...Arizona, Professor Byron Cummings of the state university refused to comment on the efficacy of a divining rod (a wishbone-shaped stick with a wooden thimbleful of "certain chemicals" at the fork) by which one of his geologists, one Charles Udall, located a mammoth's shoulder blade near Arivaca. Diviner Udall's thimble contained something sensitive to lime deposits. The stick dipped to outline a mammoth's tusk, a whole mammoth's skeleton, a buried dinosaur. Dr. Cummings, instead of theorizing about the instrument, proceeded to investigate further whether an important new fossil bed had been...
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...Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took up his station slightly to the left of the throne. The Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, the Gentlemen Usher of the Black Rod, the First Lady of the Bedchamber and many another took their places. As the King summoned the members of the House of Commons to enter the House of Lords and hear the Royal Speech, there was a flutter among Peers robed in scarlet, gold and ermine; among Peeresses clad in mourning...
Fenway--"Braveheart", with Rod La Rocque, and "Counsel for the Defense", with Betty Compson...
Twice the Finance Committee of the Chamber proclaimed by heavy adverse votes that the only clause of the Loucheur bill which would ever reach the Chamber was the relatively unimportant article proposing stern punishments for income tax dodgers. Thus rebuffed Loucheur kissed the rod to the extent of asking the Committee what sort of proposal it would endorse. The Committee haughtily took the almost unprecedented course of refusing to offer any suggestions whatever, and M. Loucheur was forced to resign as Finance Minister- admittedly a beaten...