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Happy Returns. In Decatur, 111., a lady bountiful gave a seedy-looking stranger $1 and a cheery injunction: "Keep your spirits high." Later, the stranger presented her with $37, her share of the winnings on a horse named High Spirits...
Somewhat more modestly, Miss Kerr will very soon be exposed to U.S. cinemaddicts. The exposure is a clever little British-made melodrama about Nazi spies in Ireland called The Adventuress (Eagle-Lion; English title: I See a Dark Stranger). Whatever the result of this more critical encounter, few who see her can miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr carries The Adventuress as effortlessly as a hat box. Almost nobody at all will miss the fact that Cinemactress Kerr looks like everything Englishmen mean when they become lyrical about roses. Given this primary stuff that stars are made...
Thomas Bangs Thorpe on the charms of Arkansas: "Why, stranger, just breathe Arkansaw air and it will make you snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
...plea seemed all the stranger since Cuba, from which the U.S. gets most of its sugar, is expected to raise one million more tons of sugar this year than last. On the basis of this and other expected increases, the Department of Agriculture last week said that rations this year may be raised 40% for individuals (from 25 lbs. a year to 35 lbs.) and 33 1/3 % for industries, giving industrial users 80% of their prewar supply. The State Department, more interested in sharing its candy than the Agriculture Department, has urged that the increased supply be split with other...
...seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...