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...Prussian war, in which he had shrewdly enriched himself by selling foodstuffs to the French, a formidable British wholesale grocer named John Johnston found himself surprisingly afflicted with dyspepsia. Disgusted by the remedies then in vogue, he chose to make a new one, out of beef. Bovril, in its squat, liquorish bottles, is now capitalized for ?3,000,000, has ?6,000,000 of assets including 1,300,000 acres of cattleland in the Argentine and 9,000,000 acres in Australia, where "Bovril" is the slang equivalent for applesauce or baloney. Last week, Bovril, Ltd. of London launched...
...crooks the electric chair is the "Hot Squat." To French crooks the guillotine is "The Widow." Last week the Widow raised her black arms outside the Prison de la Sante in Paris. A morbid crowd of night club habitues in evening dress, messenger boys, street sweepers, workmen and tramps gathered in the grey morning light to see what is said to be the first guillotining of a French aristocrat since the Revolution...
...artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still pursues). When Seiho Takeuchi decided that Hori knew enough of the plumage, the habits, the anatomy, the temperament of ducks he was allowed to begin painting on silk panels with a camel's hair brush, not with...
...Mayer's report: "Powers is a psychopathic personality ... of the hypo-pituitary type-squat, pig-eyed, paunchy, with weakened sexual powers. He is not insane, but he has been a borderline case all his life. Powers is capable of knowing right from wrong...
...what he looked like. As the season progressed French thrill-seekers from the mainland† decided that Caviglioli the Bandit was a myth. Last week Caviglioli the Bandit appeared where the tourists were thickest, at the new Corsican resort of Guagno les Bains. Caviglioli turned out to be a squat, middle-aged fellow with a weather-beaten face, two pistols in his belt and two nephews, similarly armed, at his elbows. They appeared first at the Grand Hotel. The proprietor made no resistance but sent a frightened chambermaid scurrying from room to room to warn the guests to lock their...