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...Adrian, Mich., a queen bee crawled into the honeycomb radiator of Clifford Poll's automobile. Presently a flock of worker bees came after the queen bee, also crawled into the radiator. Clifford Poll pried the queen bee loose with a screw driver, made her fly away. Presently, the workers crawled out of the radiator, buzzed after their queen...
Helicopteroid. Under each wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...
...something so different about Ahmy men...Theah is...Ah sho' think they're wonderful..Ah just love their brass buttons..You could count all forty eight of 'em in black and blue marks on me when Ah got home las' week...What?...Sho that's all Ah got...they screw-the real ones on...Ah rockon they need the protection...they fall so easily...? men now are different. They know it all...Why you'd think they'd all had front row seats at the creation'n showed Gawd what was wrong...They're smooth!...And when they dance they...
...tells you, she has luncheon-engagements, tea engagements, dinner engagements, balls, and post-ball meals to live through. She must change her clothes countless times, she must screw her courage to the sticking point...
...Examples: Interstate Commerce Commission, U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, U. S. Board of Mediation, National Screw Thread Commission, Board of Surveys & Maps of the Federal Government, War Claims Arbiter, Pan American Sanitary Bureau...