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...seal to make the contracts official. Harpo produces a live one. Presently, all three go to a classroom where Groucho gives a lecture on geography and anatomy. Says he: "The Lord Alps those that Alps themselves." Harpo and Chico stop clawing at pretty female classmates long enough to blow spitballs at Groucho. Groucho dismisses the class, blows spitballs back...
This bludgeon-blow so distressed well-meaning Stanley Baldwin that he went to the expense of having editorials in British papers which remained favorable to him self cabled to Ottawa and there released by his delegation's press contact man, Malcolm MacDonald, toothbrush-mustached son of Prime Minister MacDonald...
...your issue of June 13 article "Germany," p. 16, you speak of a "Cabinet of Monocles," you warm up old War frenzies, you accuse our dignified President of "turning his back to Republicans" and you insinuate that Hindenburg has appointed a Chancellor who conspired in the War to blow up the Welland Canal. Germany has enough difficulties of its own and Journalism can cooperate in fostering international comity by emphasizing good qualities in statesmen and not parading old skeletons. I introduced Papen as my successor in Washington in January 1914. Then I said to the late General Leonard Wood that...
...fight against the fly has not let up. The Iowa State Department of Health is urging citizens to "swat the fly early and kill THREE MILLION AT A BLOW." In New Haven Health Officer John Levi Rice says: "The only place where a fly has any value is on the end of a fish line...
...Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets, gourds for whistles. Other similar customs include drinking from a human skull (the Vikings did likewise), spreading the ear lobe, killing the wife or husband upon the spouse's death, using feathers for money, deforming skulls, shaving heads in ridges, burying...