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...Prince Charles, 8, heir apparent to the British throne, will get caned in the "customary place" if he doesn't behave, be limited to 35? a week spending money and will sleep with six or seven boys his own age in an unheated dormitory on a wooden, springless bed covered with a thin mattress. Said Queen Elizabeth II to her son when she saw the bed: "You won't be able to bounce on that...
...crew of eight nurses, equipped with measuring rods and springless scales, will visit all ten provinces measuring and weighing men, women & children in their homes. Subjects will be chosen according to tables prepared by the Bureau of Statistics to make sure that proper proportions of urban and rural dwellers, all ages and occupations are represented in the total...
Banded together in springless trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek. Some turned out to be vagrants and rogues who brawled and thieved. Foreign-Legion-like, these seldom asked each others' names, got along with boondock handles like Negrao (Big Nigger), Bexiginha (Pock Face), and Bichhv ho (Little Bug). When Brazilian rubber officials let them go unfed, the men broke away and foraged for themselves. Soon they were met at stopping-places by town police, who threw them into stockades until the journey continued...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...
...little cars and because we are willing to use them up in this service and replace them without restrictions, our ambulances are running over steep mountain passes in Alsace, which the French motor ambulances are unable to cross and over which wounded soldiers were formerly carried in hard-rimmed, springless wagons or on mule back. Two of the men in this section, Dudley Hale '14 and Graham Carey '14, both Harvard men, have already received the "Croix de Guerre" for special acts of valor...
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