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Cape Town, busy, crowded tavern of the seas, is plagued by young mulatto hoodlums who work in gangs and are called skollies. Between 1939 and 1942, operations of the skollies caused a notable increase of murders, assaults and rapes. Sometimes using colored girls for decoys, skollies waylay and rob British and American servicemen...
...prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...
...most noteworthy of last week's celebrations occurred at Baldwin, L. I., where St. Christopher's Church and shrine waylay picnicking New Yorkers and make it convenient for them to attend to their spiritual duties. For blocks around vehicles, including a fire engine, nosed in for blessing. But traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock...
...advantage of financial frankness, the New York Clearing House last week forcibly ejected reporters from its building, promised announcements which kept newshawks waiting all day outdoors in the rain, then announced that no announcements would be made. To get a few crumbs of information newshawks had to waylay bankers going & coming from Clearing House meetings. Little dared bankers say, for the right to issue statements belonged to the head of the Clearing House, tight-lipped Mortimer Norton Buckner...
...write him love letters on the sly. But Bengo Sprouse finds out, tells his brother Willis, who is a deputy sheriff, and who has been making up to Sarah himself. When, after the Legislature has turned down the Indian claim, Luther takes the train home, Bengo and Willis waylay him at a lonely station, handcuff him, search him for Sarah's letters. A minute later...