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...workmen was a Russian called Peter with a temper like gunpowder, who did five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move...
Last week in NR 211 No. 3 the Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure...
...blow. But old Tea Tycoon Prescott believed in her. He gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied by mistake. Roger and Hugh were both in love with Mary de Peyster, but bashful Hugh had done nothing about it beyond carving the Sea Witch's figurehead into a portrait of her. Roger...
...barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
Almost the only pure fun or vanity sanctioned last spring by Bolshevik Spar tans was the buying and using of lipsticks & rouges sold by petite, blonde Paulina Semionova Molotova, wife of Soviet Premier Molotov and Manager of "Tezhe," the Soviet powder, perfume, rouge & lipstick trust (TIME. June 13). Considered daring in the spring, Paulina Molotova was comparatively a back number when July rolled around, bringing its Annual Congress of Young Communists representing 5,500,000 Red maidens & swains...