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Except for beer, which few Germans consider alcoholic, Adolf Hitler touches no alcoholic tipple. Neither does he smoke. Hot water he calls "effeminate." Last week, on the biggest morning of his life, this pudgy, stoop-shouldered, tooth-brush-mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his historic encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reickspräsident...
...brightly daubed sheets of paper in a strange art exhibition. There were weird cloud effects, mysterious lumps and sworls, curious beasts, grotesque faces, incised lines like vines and tendrils. Not a few were extremely effective. Outstanding fact about these colorful patterns was that they were produced not by brush or other tool but by the children's own chubby hands smearing liquid pigment on paper...
Filled every two months, the bins discharge slowly through a s-ft. pipe into a tin pie plate as the birds empty it. The device is fastened about two feet from the ground, enclosed in natural-looking brush. Four openings are left in the brush so the birds may make a hasty exit when vermin come in. Put out on Christmas morning, one feeder was reported three days later to have attracted thousands of birds...
...course inevitable that the death of Calvin Coolidge should give rise to words of excessive praise both from his friends and associates in public life, and from the many whose motto it is to say nothing but superlatives of the recently dead. But although the first impulse is to brush aside these sweeping encomiums to the "great statesman" who has passed away, from their very extravagance something significant can be extracted, both about the man himself and the America which worshipped him. They testify to something in Calvin Coolidge's character, and in his role on the American scene, which...
...city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold through dealers or art galleries. The Rogers Group man was the Fuller Brush man's grandfather...