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...consciousness and pain returned, he tried to rise. He saw that he was trapped. He was lying on his back at the bottom of a rocky California canyon, about 40 miles from Oakland. His wrecked automobile was on its side beside him and his right hand and wrist were pinned underneath the car's front fender...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
...this on the outside. Of course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve jewel Hamilton wrist-watch, a genuine leather wallet containing a ten dollar bill, and a genuine leather wallet without the ten dollar bill. Now, we have only a limited number of these boxes, so it will have to be first come first served. Who's gonna be first? Whaddya...
Harmon, noted Brickley in conclusion, probably was right handed, since he had a water-soaked watch strapped to his left wrist. The path of the fatal bullet checks with this data...