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...undertakes. The ideal solution of the problem is the construction of an adequate University hospital, staffed with a resident physician, and provided with a sufficient number of private rooms and proper facilities for the care of contagion. At present such a building is but a dream awaiting the wand of another Harkness to make it a reality. Until that wand is applied, Stillman should be restored to its original status, and arrangements made with Cambridge General Hospital, or the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the care of operative cases and other serious illness...
...Chrysler exhibit: 35 salesmen and seven girls dressed in creamy flannels; rug of the same color and all the cars shaded to match; a huge merry-go-round said to have cost $20.000 displaying Chrysler parts and a chassis, presided over by a Sousa-like gentleman with a wand...
...teeth. The snake is held by the middle, head and tail dangling free. (Veteran carriers look down upon those who hold their snakes by the neck.) Behind the "carrier" is a second Hopi, called a "hugger," his arms about the shoulders of the carrier, one hand holding a feather wand which he brushes across the snake's face to occupy its attention. Behind this pair is a third Hopi, the "gatherer." If a snake wriggles free he must catch it before it escapes-or bites a spectator-and return it to the carrier...
...establishments known to be delinquent in taxes. Resentfully they rejected County Treasurer McDonough's suggestion that they call on individual delinquents to collect taxes due. Said Teacher Nell W. Reeser: "The County Treasurer apparently thinks of us as a body of super-gold-diggers, who, by some magic wand, are able to conjure money out of the well-lined but carefully guarded pockets of the rich tax dodgers. But tax collecting isn't our business. If [the officials] can't do it, then they should quit and let some one else...
...political border which separates us from the Free State is to disappear at the waving of some mysterious wand." commented the Belfast News Letter. "Mr. de Yalera expects a series of miracles to occur...