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...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.† in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family...
...Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good theory, makes the sick child grow like a weed...
Underworld. In the smelly, slinky alleyways of the Chicago tenderloin, the all-round criminal championship is held by "Bull" Weed (George Bancroft), hulking thug, notable for his wide-open laugh & easy-going gun. Only Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler), who operates a florist's shop in the daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning...
...sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there were very few tomans in the Treasury, scarcely an official not addicted to taking bribes...