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Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...York Veterinary Hospital says that in nicking an incision is usually made on top as well as beneath the horse's tail, that the operation need not necessarily be painful, that the chief discomfort is caused by the horse's inability to use his tail to brush off flies. Sometimes the operation does not have to be repeated, but the horse must wear his brace when not on show...
Fifty years ago when Gaishi Nagaoka was a young officer at the Military Staff College in Tokyo what he had on his upper lip was just a mustache, not to be mentioned in the same breath with the vast and magnificent brush of His Majesty Umberto I, King of Italy. Time passed. Umberto died. Gaishi Nagaoka became a Major, then a Colonel, then a General and his mustache grew & grew. By the time he retired from active service in 1915 to become the smiling white-winged father of Japanese aviation it was no longer a mustache but a religion...
...white paper "and pasted them in George Joslyn's eyes, giving them a piercing look that Mrs. Joslyn liked. Omaha newshawks spotted the "improvement" and the paper highlights were scraped off. Last week Omaha art-lovers saw that George Joslyn had a piercing look again, saw two tiny brush strokes of white paint in the eyes. Director Grumman would not say whether he or Artist Trebilcock had put them...
...survey or rapid review of the elements of French it is unexcelled. It may be taken by students who wish to brush up on the language for one course credit. Although the daily classes are necessarily tedious, the personality of the instructor does a great deal to relieve the grind...