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...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
...morning, salvagers found the bodies, not one recognizable. Scrambled bones and a woman's slipper pointed to two stowaways, one perhaps an official's stenographer. Perhaps, however, a couple larking at the hill were caught under the wreck. The men who, against harsh opposition, had fought for a lighter-than-air program for the Empire were dead. Parts of the ship were scattered over five miles of terrain. The huge twisted skeleton was broken in half...
...Suspected Slipper concerns the return of a warrior to his wife after years in battle. All goes well until the couple retire, when the warlord discovers a strange slipper in the nuptial chamber. The wife coquettishly pretends that she has transgressed, that another has been buying her rice, occupying her bed. As she describes him, her raging husband perceives that the description fits one whom he has seen killed that very day. Then the tragic truth is made manifest-that the slipper belongs to the couple's own son, grown to manhood while his father was away...
...Silver Slipper, 11 Arlington St.--No cover charge before 9.30--Cabaret 7.45 and 11.45--Master of ceremonies, George MacKinnon of the Wisdom Box and his all-girl chorus...
Altogether we think the Silver Slipper is an exceedingly pleasant haunt, so pleasant that we were inclined to forgive George for committing the sacrilege of singing a version of "My Bill" to a tired looking air deal pup which he brought out on the dance floor...