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...Shot Him." Hysterically, Ditty pleaded with Dr. Smith not to tell her father. Paight was still under the anesthetic, and Ditty and her mother went home. Friends later recalled Ditty's strange behavior. She seemed frigidly calm, then unexpectedly snatched up a tumbler and smashed it against a wall. Her later actions were pieced together by witnesses in court last week...
...from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that his wife hit him with a milk bottle, smashed a tumbler on his head, knocked out one of his teeth with a plate, battered him with a shovel, yanked him downstairs by one leg, scratched him, pushed a lighted cigarette in his face...
Besides dramatizing old yells, the tumbling squad will do some special numbers with the band. "We're really looking for men with plenty of experience," Liebman explained, "but any good tumbler who knows the usual flips, handstands, cartwheels, and air somersaults has a chance to make the new squad...
...Masticate. Twentieth Century man is as unlike his forebears as the Yale lock is unlike the wooden tumbler-lock of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Democracy has taught him to hate slavery-and the machine has made him so little of a slave that he scarcely needs to use his hands and jaws and legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that...
Dash of 'Honey. For his own refreshment during the reading, abstemious Cripps kept by his elbow, in place of the more customary alcoholic fortifier, a tumbler of orangeade spiked with honey. The House was amused. The M.P.s were also amused when he said: "I propose to abolish the excise duty ... on unsweetened table water. [This] is mainly a tax on soda water, which I do not drink. . . . Very little soda water is drunk neat in this country today. . . ." The Tory Daily Mail dubbed the budget "Cripps & Soda...