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...Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving command was conclusive proof that Ezekiel was smooth-shaven at the time he was doing his best prophesying. Since Ezekiel kept his standing as the Lord's prophet for many years afterward, he must have obeyed the Lord's command. The case of the beard defenders was that...
...strategy was close and continuous picketing to keep the Bonus issue squarely under Congressional noses. The first night in Washington his wayworn band flopped down on the plaza lawn, slept on newspapers after police confiscated their bedding. Next morning they trooped to the House Office Building to wash & shave. Soon thereafter Commander Robertson started them on a slow, shuffling march around the plaza that was to last four days, three nights...
...back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave, a pair of shoes before taking the accumulated savings bank interest of about $450 to buy an automobile. If he had bought the 850 shares when he sold his Atchison in 1929, they would have cost...
...Braun, shrewd, had expected some such close shave as this. Therefore, just before the election, he persuaded the old Prussian Diet to pass a bill having the effect that Dr. Braun can only be ousted as Premier if his opponent can muster a majority. Up to the time this measure passed a plurality in the Diet had always sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention...
...race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...