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...almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...
American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...
Have just read "Criminal Glands" in your Feb. 17 issue. Recall another article about bulldogs suffering from undersecretion of pituitary in a former issue. Why not let your gullible readers know why Nero fiddled while Rome burned, why one of Proust's characters got a kick while another spit on her grandfather's picture, and of course why "Alvy Siawaski Suffers?" Then you could have some doctor work out statistics on why ''lovely lady stoops to folly" and graduate into a metaphysical aspect and prove that we are all foreordained...
...Spit ball. Went on Heydler: "The spitball . . . will never return ... an unsightly, insanitary form of delivery...
...whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...