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...snowball. The American Legion, with an organization of 10,600 posts throughout the land, and the American Federation of Labor, representing the country's workingmen, were maneuvered into giving the plan their support. Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel donated office space for national headquarters. A national organization sprang into life with one purpose in view, namely, to tell every employer that if he and 999,999 other employers would make one extra job available for six months, a million men would be put back to work. It was the militant Legion which suggested that the drive be called...
Begun in 1924, Surrealisme sprang from a scientific background. Of the three founders of the movement, Breton, Aragon, and Soupault, the first two were physicians and neurological specialists...
...Wallace to cultured minds was a phenomenon as remarkable as his productivity. It is said that an illustrious professor in our midst, among other people, subscribes to the opinion of his Majesty. The secret of that fasciculation was not merely in the relaxation he provided from mental effort; it sprang also from his tremendous virility. Those who saw "On The Spot," his play about Chicago gangsters, can appreciate the effervescing mixture of melodrama and force at which he was so adopt...
...tiger, knocked it across the cage. After that Nero was Trainer Beatty's favorite beast, was the tamest in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Last fortnight Animal Man Beatty was rehearsing his act at Peru, Ind. He cracked his whip over Nero's head. Nero snarled, crouched, sprang. As Trainer Beatty went down sharp teeth tore through the flesh of his leg. Assistants rushed into the cage, whipped the lion away, carried Trainer Beatty off to a hospital...
...started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them. This pawer he called animal magnetism. Mesmer's successes infuriated the Viennese medicos. They looked for some pungent failure, found one in the case...