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...left is on the tiller. Even-tempered, meticulous, laconic, Skipper Iselin dresses for sailing in a dilapidated Panama hat, corduroy trousers, bow tie. In 20 years of yachting on Long Island Sound, his friend Ed Willis, who is usually his "crew" on the Ace, has never heard him swear the great seagoing oaths with which most smallboat sailors try to compensate for the tinyness of their Victories and stars...
...Tuan Chi-jui, although without ability and undeserving, assume office as Chief Executive of the Republic of China. I swear that I will endeavor to consolidate the Republican government . . . and raise the nation's standing abroad. I swear the forgoing reverently...
...Upper Marlboro. Md., on trial for bootlegging, Frank Bassford was asked to raise his right hand as he took oath. Said he: "I'll not only raise my right hand and swear I'm innocent, but I'll lift both hands, stand on my head and raise my feet." Charge dismissed...
...headache is not in every case a part of the migrainous attack. A person reasonably normal in emotional and psychic make-up may have periodic episodes in which he feels depressed, absentminded, confused. Things and ideas seem strange and unreal to him. He may act like an automaton, swear he is living in both the past and present simultaneously, add up two separate columns of figures at the same time. To be called migraine, such attacks must be short (not more than two days), periodic, not associated with unconsciousness...
...Journal of Commerce, with criminal libel. Publisher Harpell's lawyers would not handle the case. He appeared in Court alone and shocked everybody by screaming: "The plaintiff . . . has given to Samuel and Martin Insull and Ivar Kreuger $26,000,000 of policyholders' funds. ... I am here to swear out a warrant for his arrest...