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...would have to stop, otherwise she wouldn't be eating anything at all, but would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...
...Vermont since 1923. U. S. Representative from 1912 to 1923, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1917-23) regent of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; after an operation for hernia; in St. Albans, Vt. He had been partially paralyzed since 1924, when he was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired in a Washington street fight between Prohibition agents and 'leggers...
Scouts of the dog racket work in wealthy neighborhoods, observing dogs and little boys. They encourage the boys to bring them stray dogs at first, paying small sums. They then offer larger sums for household pets. Sometimes racketeers pose as A. S. P. C. A. officials, snatch up dogs when they are taken out for an airing. Dogs caught in one State are often sent to another State to be sold. Purchasers asking for an expensive dog in unscrupulous shops will almost always get what they want. The pet shop owner will have a scout steal one to order...
...territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping...
...merely stated exactly what had happened, to wit that a stray clipping about a fish had been brought in for explanation by a puzzled fish expert, and then I proceeded to quote from it, carefully placing every portion of it in quotation marks...