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...shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo. This fifth one, four feet high, maltese grey, was to tour U.S. zoos, guided by Collector George H. Bistany, who had braved malaria and homesickness to wait, near a broad spreading cactus bush in a Nile valley swamp, until the bird's mother hatched...
...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...
...boats and called for Douglas MacLean to take command. But ankles are after all, especially Miss Morris' very slender supports for a feature film. Aud thus cometh comedy in the guise of a child who attaches himself to Douglas on land, on sea, on foam, and makes comedy stalk beside the ankles...
...whole brain looks like a dirty, wetted newspaper crumpled up and patted into somewhat the shape of a rounded bun. Another comparison might be to a lobsided mushroom, for the bottom of the brain runs into a sort of stalk, which is the spine...
...period from Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. During this period the miners went without some $113,850,000 in pay, and the operators lost the profit on some 55,000,000 tons of anthracite that was not mined, meanwhile having to continue paying their fixed charges. Want began to stalk in the homes of 158,000 miners in Pennsylvania. Relief agencies had to help the miners. In Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lackawanna Counties, 125,000 of whose total population of 893,000 men, women and children are miners, in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Pottsville, Shamokin, severe business depression grasped the entire communities...