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...about the rogue's chateau that when he has rescued his flower girl by a narrow margin they will have enough to live on for a long time to come. Secrets of the French Police was adapted from H. Ashton-Wolfe's Secrets of the Surété and Samuel Ornitz' The Lost Empress, retaining the wildest features of each...
Persia bought a modest $2,000,000 Navy last week (see p. 16). Germany let contracts for her third $20,000,000 "pocket battleship" (see p. 14). France began "war games" or "autumn maneuvers" around Châlons-sur-Marne to continue until Sept...
Eyes Reset A frequent effect of goiter is protrusion of the eyes. Usually the eyes recede and cease staring upon the removal of the goiter. When this does not happen, it is because the muscles sur- rounding the eyeballs remain swollen to from three to eight times their normal size Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of San Francisco relieved the pressure by enlargement of the passages through which the optic nerves and the arteries of the eyes reach the eyesocket from the interior of the skull. The popping eyes then reset themselves...
...visions, the desires that fool man out of his limits lead Poet Jeffers' tragic heroes & heroines into dark and terrifying ways. "Tamar," "The Tower Beyond Tragedy," ''The Women at Point Sur" all tell incestuous tales. "Roan Stallion" tells of a woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile...
...suggested that, if a road reduced a freight rate after accepting the carload increase, the cut be made from the basic rate and not from the sur-rate, thereby insuring a full flow of excess revenue into the credit pool. The A. of R. E. petition protested this arrangement on the ground that roads were justified in cutting some rates to retain business and should not be asked to contribute any part of their present revenue to the pool...