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...oldtime wooden covered bridge is a U. S. institution. New England in particular abounds with specimens. Narrow, dark, rickety, they stand indefinitely; they vex the speedy motorist, he is obliged to slow up and turn on his lights. The mechanistic 20th century has been unable to figure out exactly why these bridges have covers. Girls from Northampton have asked youths from New Haven and Cambridge: "Why?" and been told that it was to prevent horses from becoming frightened and jumping in the river...
...those Insult's lights?" shrieked the Senator from Wisconsin. "Never mind, I can show him up in the dark...
Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he "received an enthusiastic welcome...
...normal mortals. Sometimes she lives again the days when, as a child of nine, she romped sedately in a pelissed jacket beneath a mushroom hat. Sometimes she recalls proudly that her husband once called her "the better man of the two." Mastication. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth consumed only dark, coarse "War bread" throughout the week. Peasants, the bourgeoisie and the nobility likewise masticated this coarse fare. Exporters estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian francs were saved during the week through this self denial, enforced upon the country by King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July...
...stormy evening, well after dark. The road is slick as an eel under your automobile's tires. You come to a curve, or a grade crossing. "Just the moment for an accident," you mutter to yourself. But, possibly because you recognize it as dangerous, this setting is not the one in which most automobile casualties come about. Not, at least, in New York State, as was shown in a survey of New York's 47,128 accidents during 1925, wherein 1,981 persons were killed and 54,398 injured. The most dangerous setting is this: A straight, level...