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...latest bit of obstruction that the conniving minds of money-in-the-hand barristers can plot to hinder the movements of the notorious snail is the presentation of evidence to prove that Abe Faber is a schizomaniac. Now don't let that word stop you as it must have choked the 12 tried and true men who go to make up the Millen-Faber jury. For uninformed souls, schizomania is a cute little word for that ultra-modern disease, a "split personality." At this point, one thing seems certain. The effect that the mention of this alphabetical masterpiece would have...
What the sampans go for is the trochus. The trochus or top shell is a marine rhipidoglossate mollusk with a multispiral operculum. Its shell is a simple cone and snail-wise it carries it on its back as it moves slowly along in shallow water. The shell is good for buttons, cheaper than pearl shell...
...race, twice reduced to a snail's pace while wrecks and bodies were being removed, was exciting because of a new rule forbidding cars to carry more than 15 gallons of fuel-to cause more stops for gasoline and thus insure frequent changes in the lead. Bill Cummings took the lead first, lost it to Fred Frame, last year's winner. Frame was eliminated when he crashed the wall (without injury). "Babe" Stapp of Los Angeles shot ahead but, hoping to increase his lead by not stopping for gas, came to a dead halt when his tank went...
...What is needed is a speedier, stronger handling of the existing laws. Congress has recently acted to speed up the appellate process in Federal courts. This should be extended to state jurisdiction as well, making it possible to hurry procedure along at something better than the current snail's-pace. If this were brought about, there might be a chance of curbing the wide-spread corruption in banking circles...
...Though a hermaphrodite like the leech (see above), the snail nevertheless goes courting. He carries a dartlike structure (spiculum amoris) which is discharged during the preliminary stages of mating, stimulating his companion to autoerotic activity...