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When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...thin rain hung its veils over 70,000 people assembled in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year's Day for the supreme intersectional football game of the season - the "Tournament of Roses." Washington State, Pacific Coast champions, had on new red silk jerseys, red pants, red shoes, red helmets. Less flashily arrayed but more dangerously colored by its reputation as the greatest team that ever came from the South, Alabama's Crimson Tide was playing for the last time under supervision of Coach Wallace Wade.* Betters were favoring Alabama principally because the climate of Pasadena...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
...viscountcy in 1924. He is acceptable to the Liberals because he is a Liberal, has been a party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability which still serves him well, spinning curling stones over slippery Canadian ice; because he is a famed grouse shot, was once told by George V (one of the best wing shots in England), that "a little serious work" would make him the best shot in England...
...been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict output, prefer to sell by price-cutting. International competition has also been a major difficulty. And mechanical improvements have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week's Brussels meeting. "All industries," said he, "have transgressed good economic laws. . . . The capitalistic system is on trial. If you think the people who are running the industries of the world can by reason...