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...would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted in a butler part...
Patriarch Miron Cristea, who is well under the King's thumb, suddenly issued what is for Rumania an enlightened Minorities Statute. Between sunup and sundown one day it gave a new status to 1,568,000 Magyars, 900,000 Jews, 790,000 Russians, 792,000 Germans, 400,000 Slavs, 290,000 Bulgars and 170,000 Turks, who together with smaller groups make up nearly one-third of Carol II's subjects...
...supplementary keyboard is a strip of flexible material, played by depressing it with the thumb and forefinger, the pressure determining the volume. The Krakauer creation, using piano strings for its fundamental tones, has no sounding board and (like the Hammond) imitates other instruments, or invents new tone colors, by electrically mixed overtones. By pushing the proper combination of its ten buttons, it can even be made to sound like a plain piano. It contains a radio and phonograph. Price...
...metre this summer, and Harold Vanderbilt, successful defender, tried a hand at sailing a Twelve, Van S. Merle-Smith's Seven Seas, fortnight ago with such success that he is contemplating building one, seasoned yachtsmen predicted that international racing for the America's Cup may go Tom Thumb...