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Among those indicted were the Brothers Herbert, most famed and feared by independent poultrymen. It was Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert who held under his pudgy thumb all the truck drivers; who was implicated in bombing the home of Rebel Poultryman Joseph Hasenfratz. It was Charlie Herbert who bossed the Shochetim Union (Jewish slaughterers); who disciplined independents by refusing to kill their chickens according to Jewish dietary laws...
...Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists...
...request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast of inefficiency all the admirably handled examinations that preceded him. The bluebook snatcher is armed with an indisputable destiny, perhaps, but there is no reason why, in the distribution of examination papers, meticulous thumb-counting should take the place of quick availability. October, the month of November hour examinations, is here. It is to be hoped that the rooms of examination will be proctored and provisioned with a more uniform understanding of their importance to the student. (Signature withheld...
...could thumb his nose at Marcus Daly. Perhaps in triumph, he went to Manhattan and built himself a house, in the tradition of Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly...
...young secretary of the British legation, or a clever attache of the Turkish; and there is really no reason why the wife of the great Foreign Minister who is too fat to dance should not go to night club parties squired by discreet, ambitious gallants, each under the thumb of his Ambassador or Minister. Midnight is early, 2 average, 8 late...