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...Magician Ching Ling Foo had a trick, never duplicated, in which with two flicks of his robe he produced: 1) a container, garbage-can size, filled with milk; 2) a metal tub containing a dozen live ducks...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...
...remind patriots that the U. S. Frigate Constitution had served well against the Barbary pirates, the French, the British (in her most famous battle in the War of 1812 she reduced the lighter Guerriere to smoking smithereens). The poem saved the Constitution from the junk pile. From grog tub to untattered sails, she was still shipshape last week, afloat at the Boston Navy Yard and useful mainly for show to visitors. Similarly listed "in service, out of commission" until last fortnight was Constitution's contemporary, Constellation, stationed at Newport, R. I. and used to school embryo officers...
Long before the rest of the country was ready for war, undergraduate opinion at Harvard in the year 1916 had crystallized. Under the slogan Preparedness, the alma mater of tub-thumping Teddy Roosevelt rallied to arms, with a Harvard Regiment readily recruited and almost 1000 men receiving training at the outset...
...Increased construction boosted Crane Co.'s valve, toilet & tub sales, raised earnings for the year (ending June 30) to $5,722,830, against $2,013,655 last year...