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...thud of broken skulls continued to be heard on U. S. city streets last week and country highways continued to resound with the crash of battered, torn and twisted metal. Removed during the week from the scene of automobile accidents in the U. S. were approximately 1,000 dead or dying persons. In Chicago, the National Safety Council was once more in convention to take stock of this appalling situation, consider what can be done, tell what is being done...
Curious observers pressed closer to the four to investigate what so absorbed these mighty intellects. A flash in the sun, and a thud in the ground disclosed the answer.--mumblety pegl...
...ancient Syrian city of Antioch last week a batch of League of Nations observers huddled on their hotel balcony while the street directly before them echoed with pistol shots, wild Turkish and Syrian yells, the thud of brickbats, groans. When police finally cleared the cobbled street, one slippered rioter was dead, eight others gravely injured...
...Thud, thud, thud, go automobiles over many a brand-new concrete highway which looks as smooth as a table. Reason for this phenomenon, which has exasperated many a driver, is the bulging of the substance filling the expansion joints between the big rectangles of concrete. Like most solids, concrete expands in hot weather, contracts in cold. Hence the joints require a resilient substance which will fill the gap completely no matter how the concrete behaves. Most substances tried by road-builders have had two faults-they bulged in hot weather, left openings for seepage in cold...
...whole, despite an excellent cast, "Ladies in Love" falls into the class of lower mediocrity with a definite and final thud. Simone Simon has lost all the appeal she had in "Girls Dormitory," and although we any pleased to see Janet Gaynor back again her return is wasted on a poor show...