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...found the matter pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep-discouraging seats in garish Kelvin Hall and listened with never a wink or a nod to a panel of experts...
...Wink & Guffaw. Since the court ruling would cause a fantastic increase in tax valuations, the legislature changed the law to call for assessment at 50% of actual value. Then the state board of equalization, Governor Robert Crosby, chairman, set out to equalize the assessments from county to county. This meant that almost every real-estate owner in Nebraska was hit with an increase in taxes. In Crosby's home town, North Platte, town-lot tax valuations more than tripled. Although the State Supreme Court had forced the action, most of the public ire was directed at one man: Governor...
...taverns and coffee shops all over Spain's capital last week, once respectable customers were sidling up to waiters and barkeeps to whisper the cryptic words: "Any orchard chops?" Often as not, the bartender would reply 'with a knowing wink and lead the customer around to a hidden door in the back of the shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp...
Behind these three, there are sophomores Art Noyes, Alby Wells, Wink Childs, Dick Allen, and Ralph Becket fighting for a chance at the third line...
Hastily, the show's organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes...