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...Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek...
...representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment when we returned home about his army's need for American money and munitions. The banquet closed with all of the Americans filing past General Semenov who embraced each American and planted a bushy kiss on each cheek in the European fashion...
...State of Sirmur, India, a barber shaving a customer told such a funny story that the customer jounced with mirth, pushed his cheek into the barber's razor, suffered a disfiguring wound, sued the barber for 200 rupees. Ruled the court: no recovery; the barber was following the traditional practice of his profession; the story was to mitigate the ordeal of the shave; the customer should have restrained his mirth...
...Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost, 135-to-92, and swarms of sugar lobbyists perched confidently in the gallery, knowing they had won, began making side bets on various minor amendments. The Bill itself finally passed, 165-to-55, and went to the Senate. Lobbyist Black rushed up to a group of Congressmen, chirped...
...thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought to have opened his eyes to how much she cared. She cut her cheek, ripped her clothes half off, instructed him to drag her through the streets to avoid suspicion that he was not one of the pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because he was not thoroughgoing enough. Once they passed a Serbian prisoner...