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...Gloria bit and snapped at people's legs when angered while walking on all fours. A behavior practically identical with that of a puppy...
...recent Harvard riot which was reported by Moscow newspapers as caused by hunger for food, and which the San Francisco newspapers attributed to hunger for companionship of Radcliffe belles was brought to a splendid anti-climax in court yesterday morning. Policemen under oath were a bit more honest than the press in admitting that Harvard students had been "grabbed at random" and arrested "without any idea of what they might have been guilty...
Eyelids Mended. When an eyelid is damaged by injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...
...Hoover. I have heard many prominent Democrats in political speeches pay their respects to the President in exactly the same words which Governor Murray used in his Charlotte speech. I don't know that the speakers tried to convey the impression that they were the authors of this bit of sarcasm thrown at Mr. Hoover, but I can say that every time the expression was used it brought down the house...
...part of the U. S. occurred the following incidents: 1) In Brooklyn a bear wandered away from Richard Herrold's pet shop, entered a nearby house and rifled a refrigerator, frightening a Mrs Christine Schubert and her 13-year-old son Emil. 2) In Manhattan a pet fox bit Policeman Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger...