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...Kreuznach on the Rhine, G.H.Q. of the German Army from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn...
...Sunday mornings the house cat taught him [Kitten Mike] to stalk pigeons in the colonnade. Mike was set to 'point' like a dog, and the house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each cat seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten...
...bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading on the new exchange will be conducted around posts for each of the commodities handled, which will include raw jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags. President of the market...
...them are fanatics. When they do not want to send their children to the government schools, they burn the schoolhouses. When a hot summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...