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...like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung Aknahton as Shem at Havre de Grace, I shipped the horse back to Jamaica, then sent him to Crown Point, Ind., where . . . the Pinkertons located him. . . . I gave a certain police official $500 . . . and they never saw him again until at Hialeah. . . . Well, the Pinks had a picture...
Debo who had left his South Pearl Street home that morning without shaving. On a damp ladder rung, his foot slipped. Down the manhole vanished his dark curly head. There was a muffled splash...
...remember our tale of the Russian bells in Lowell House at Harvard: how the Russian bellringer who was brought over to ring them fell into a mood, took to drinking ink, and had to be sent home, so that the bells have never been rung. Nobody so far has denied that the Russian bellman drank ink, but several people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only...
Presidents pair only with Premiers. Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
...opened his office at 6 a. m. for the rush. A representative from every one of Reno's 130 law firms jostled into line to file one or more petitions for clients seeking release from marital ties. Clang! went the cash register 30 times per hour as $20 was rung up for each petition. Clang! it went again as another $10 was deposited with the answer to each uncontested action. In the line of lawyers were the U. S. District Attorney. Nevada's Attorney General, the local District Attorney and the Mayor of Reno, for under the Nevada code they...