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...over the divan, shouting to Cecilia to stop crying mascara over the cushions, when Joe and Nellie come dashing to her rescue. After many other antics, Cecilia finally has her debut as a singer. Sample caper: Hardy swallows an inch-long harmonica after which Laurel plays Pop Goes the Weasel by pressing on Hardy's sensitive circumference...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had been taken from him and he could not produce them in court. Their evidence would not have affected the verdict, thinks Author Wilkins. The British Admiralty was determined to make an example of him. Reason: India's Great Mogul, tired of English pirates, had threatened to drive...
Laws in every State provide some measure of secrecy for grand jury activities, but newspapers habitually get around the law with the weasel-phrase "it was reported that. ..." Fortnight ago in Akron able, ambitious Common Pleas Judge Walter B. Wanamaker, 43, decided to prove Ohio's hazy law in the matter, forbade newspaper accounts of grand jury proceedings. Barked he: "There has been too much trying of lawsuits in newspapers instead of courts, particularly in criminal cases." Immediately the Scripps-Howard Times-Press published names of jurors and witnesses, listed titles of cases to be heard by a newly...
...Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems to have in the pigeon holes of its General Staff plans for an offensive war on foreign soil. This is such a reversal of Old Bolshevik tenets that New Bolshevik ''Klim" Voroshilov had to weasel cautiously into it thus: "Any attack on the territory of workers and peasants will be repulsed with all the strength of the armed forces of the Soviet Union through the transfer of military operations into territory attacking the enemy...
...fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia University 25 Ib. of lead ore, the University of Illinois 18 bullfrog skeletons. A man in Jamaica who had failed in business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that the egg noodles he had been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible...