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Scientists have induced a sort of frozen trance in chickens, rabbits, partridges and sea lions by suddenly forcing them into unnatural positions. Many a hunter has watched bird-dog trainers tuck a pigeon's head under its wing, plant it for the dogs to find. Dr. Thoma now believes that this state is probably not hypnosis at all. but a form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that...
...Dealers' Fair by remarking publicly of his popular wife Princess Alice: "I always have the greatest difficulty in getting her away from the window of an art dealer's shop. She remains there with her nose glued to the glass rather like a child looking into a tuck shop." ¶To the surprise of Welshmen, the dragon passant, emblematic beast of Wales, was seen to have vanished last week along with the three "Prince of Wales" feathers from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall, as new emblems designed by the College of Arms were submitted...
...Brucker had polled 315,000 votes on a strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...East Hampton, Conn., when Mrs. Henry Schleidt tried to tuck Henry Schleidt Jr., 3, into bed, he playfully kicked up his feet, fractured her jaw in three places...
...plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through them. When Russians make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind. After weeks of scarlet fever and quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving...