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Proudest, craftiest and most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces...
...Talifer, an admiral At least, if mot a monarch in appearance, returned after ten years' absence to his native village, whose obvious though unstated locale is New England. There he met and fell in love with Althea. Disturbingly before their marriage he also met Karen, a heaven-wrought sheath...
...earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening...
...electrical engineers he rigged up a small generator which produces 40 to 120 impulses a minute. The current goes through a 5-in. gold-plated needle. The needle is hollow. Down its bore, carefully insulated, passes a wire to the open tip. The wire forms one contact point, the sheath another, for the tickling passage of the electricity...
There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...