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...Brokenhearted, Slim shelves construction for work on an electric railroad. The depression comes. Construction ceases and maintenance is cut to the minimum. Slim, during one of his periodic spells in the hospital, has fallen in love with his nurse. But when she tries to get him to take a softer job, he rebels. Even out of work Slim remains the heroic lineman. They would need him, he figures, even during the revolution...
...high cheek-bones and rasping voice that brought Miss Hepburn notice in her early productions seem to have faded a bit into the background. It is a good thing. A bit of extra weight looks well on her and the softer voice will increase the range of her eligible roles...
Middle-Class Cars. The bulk of independent motor companies compete in the rangy medium-priced field. The low-priced field thawed first under last year's warm sun of Recovery. In 1934, motormen expect softer ground and easier going for the medium-priced models...
...Last week a new seat was provided for him to relax in. In a bye-election, Clay Cross, Derbyshire returned him to the House of Commons with a three-to-one majority over the Government candidate, on a platform of peace and disarmament. The seat will be the softer for the knowledge that his former friend, white-crowned James Ramcay MacDonald, campaigned personally against...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Dean DeWitt Lewis, who is the new A. M. A. president, said that he hunts for a tumor of the parathyroid when he gets a case of bone cyst. The cysts "develop and the bones get softer and shorter because the diseased parathyroid cannot produce enough hormones to hold calcium in the bones. Surgeon Lewis cuts out the parathyroid tumors, cures his patients...