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Sirs: Two American newspaper reporters in Panama have just locked horns over a matter of grammatical construction and each being desirous of securing the wager-which amounts to no less than 100 glasses of cold beer which is in no way affected by the 18th Amendment-we finally agreed upon you as the only suitable authority. The disputed sentence is as follows: "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela, the propeller of the plane was broken, necessitating a delay of two days while installing a new one." Our argument centers only on the grammatical correctness...
...Some other great lives: John Charles Martin, $6,540,000; William Fox, $6,500,000; Joseph M. Schenck, $5,025,000; Jesse L. Lasky, $5,000,000; Adolph Zukor, $5,000,000.-ED. 100 Glasses Cold Beer...
...sentence was ungrammatical: 100 glasses of cold beer. "In landing on a rough and muddy field at Tela" is a dangling phrase, since "propeller" and not "plane" is the subject of the sentence yet it was obviously the plane that did the "landing."-ED. Pornographer Stravinsky...
...Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside to see the sights. Silently vexed were Moslems when the visitors trooped through nearby Qairw?n, a Moslem pilgrimage centre almost as sacred as Mecca and Medina, buying nicknacks and souvenirs. But Tunisian wine merchants, beer dispensers, restaurateurs and shopkeepers stayed open for business 24 hours...
...there were nothing else to stop this demonstration of male beauty there remains the significant fact that the modest maidens across the Commons strenuously object to a show of hairy legs in Cambridge tea rooms. So Dartmouth will have its short pants, Yale its natty caps, and Princeton its beer suits. For Harvard there remains nothing but a little old-fashioned dignity...