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...Warehouse Manager and his three chief accomplices were sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense," death by shooting, which was promptly meted out. Three other accomplices were sent to alternately sweat and freeze in remote forced labor camps. The remaining two jam thieves will spend three years comparatively snug in jail...
...then there is the witchery which the polished buttons, the gold braid, the snug capes, cast over even the most surfeited debutante; fortunately those crisp commands prevent a military encounter under the chandeliers of the Copley. Last there is the rumor, the vague suspicion, that the librettist who conceived "In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow," was nearly half right...
...Snug as bugs in the matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...died more than 35 years ago. All her children and their children are dead. Since 1900 she has lived alone, most of the time in a grass house. About nine years ago she told the Indian Agent at Anadarko to build her a two-room frame cottage and a snug backhouse. That was done. She rents out all but one acre of her Government land allotment to white farmers. They pay her a small amount of cash which suffices her for her weekly drive to town for store groceries. She never goes farther than Anadarko, eight miles away. A visit...
...think, of all the sloppy individuals I have ever met, Yale students take the cake, whether you see one, five, or two dozen together," said Dorothy Mackaill in an interview yesterday afternoon as she lounged between performances in her snug dressing-room at the Metropolitan Theater. "Yale fellows always look as if they were going to fall apart; I think that Harvard men are much nicer. You might say that the Yale boys can sue me if they want...