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...Houston, Miss, a Mrs. C. keeps a tub of water in her back yard for an extraordinary purpose. It is a ducking tub for her five-year-old son. Every time he feels uncomfortable he jumps in, clothes & all. Mrs. C. does not scold. For that is the only way the boy can keep comfortable. He lacks sweat glands, which in normal people dissipate two to three quarts of cooling perspiration every...
...soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty or William Scott Vare or Frank Leslie Smith, Republicans all, forget the things that the narrow-eyed junior Senator from Arkansas said to them and about them. Less nimble-witted Republicans used to call him a common scold...
Recommended to potential Spankers are these precepts: Don't scold or pray over the child, or nag with small, ineffectual, repeated chastisements. Don't ridicule, frighten, punish after school years; never in the presence of others after the age of three. Punish immediately and impressively after an offense...
...their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer) picked out a Black Watch private (Gary Cooper) who happened to have her own name. She told people she was his mother, sent him cakes and sweaters, making him believe they came from some fine lady. When he came to scold her for her pretensions she won him over so effectively that he gave up his idea of deserting. Seven Days Leave is wonderfully cast and acted, directed with able comprehension by Richard Wallace. Best shot: the big Canadian taking his adopted mother to the dance floor of the Imperial Restaurant...
...fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated. He did not arrest the two passengers. They were dead, from alcohol declared the police surgeon, from carbon monoxide swore a private physician who had noted the pinkness of the victims' bloods. Professors Haldane...