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...North. There were frogs of many sizes in this pond and I liked to look at them. One day I began to feed a small frog and he was soon so gentle I could pat him on the back. He was not much larger than a walnut. Then I decided to get a size larger frog and after I gentled him I got a size still larger. I kept on at this until I had 20 and each accurately a size larger. The 20th frog...
...general use of small arms will occur until it has been decided whether or not the Club will join the Walnut Hill organization, which has more extensive facilities for shooting all types of arms than the present range. Turkey shoots will probably be held in the neighborhood of Thanksgiving for members of the Club...
...Macon. But they acquired their most unusual 1931 rookie from the Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...
Both Wall Street and Walnut Street were arrested by the series' title The Red Trade Menace, and startled by certain headlines: Famished Moscow Short All Food Except Bread; Red Railroads Collapse; Reds Use Forced Labor In Forests; Russia Ships Coal Here and Sells Below Cost...
...Farewell to Arms is the story of their meeting, wooing, mating and her death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...