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Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch...
During the timeouts, the spectators gather about the bleeding players and listen avidly while the latter form their plots as they run their fingers across their skate-blades, testing their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim...
Eager Yardlings rushed to sign the petition with cries of "Let me at it," "Boy!" In a more serious vein, William L. Calfee '39, ex-president of the Lampoon warned: "It'll need plenty of lab periods." John S. Stillman '39, newly elected president of the Student Union, speaking unofficially, snorted: "This bourgeosie farce, marriage, must go,--forever...
Elected to fill the two remaining vacancies* in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (membership limited to 50) were Novelist-Playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key, The Woman of Andros, Our Town) and Novelist Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (The Romantic Comedians, Barren Ground, Vein of Iron...
...State Hospital, 23 of its 4,700 patients stood fidgeting in line, with sleeves rolled up to their elbows waiting for their weekly injections of neoarsphenamine. Nurse Catherine Irvine handed Dr. Samuel Louis Leffel a syringe of bright yellow fluid, and he jabbed the needle into the prominent elbow vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just as he sobbed his last breath, the woman behind him dropped dead...