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Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...
...Into the executive offices, from the Kingdom of Ethiopia, marched Dr. C. Martin, legal adviser to Prince Regent Ras Taffari of Ethiopia, bearing a handsome shield in a brilliant red case. The President, prohibited by law from accepting gifts from foreign countries, permitted the shield to repose on his desk until its proper disposi- tion should be advised...
Patrolmen Sheehan and Gillee took note. "An anarchist, maybe!" said Patrolman Gillee. On seeing a great lout, lumbering along the nearly deserted street, firing off a gun in crazy fashion they were convinced. Overtaking Patrolman Burns, they whacked his head with clubs, searched him for explosives, found his police shield...
...Ignacio, Calif., no honest dog stood by to shield Irene Malla, 18, when she went into the fields to milk her cows. Proceeding, she disturbed the ruminations of a bull, could not elude him. The beast caught her on his horns, gashed her thigh, threw her over a fence...
...apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...