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...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...amusing as well as valuable first edition of the Poems of John Milton, dated 1645, is also on display in the Memorial Room. Under the engraving of Milton in the frontispiece is an inscription in Greek. It is evident that the engraver could not read the ancient tongue of the Hellenes, and that Milton had a quiet little joke at his expense. The inscription reads, "When you compare this with the form Nature herself fashioned, you will say that the picture has been engraved by an unskilled hand. Friends of mine not recognizing this portrait will please laugh...
...Vermonters have already been tried in action. Last Saturday they journeyed to Baker Field, New York, and were trounced, 32 to 0, by a rejuvenated Columbia eleven. On this occasion the Catamounts were given little opportunity to display their brand of football. The Blue and White backs tore through the line to score almost at will...
Among the campaign utterances of Mayor Thompson had been a promise to oust "that stool pigeon of King George," Superintendent McAndrew. The color of the epithet was derived entirely from the Thompson campaign scheme. He and his friends were out to startle the electorate with an unrivaled display of Americanism, much as a vulgar hostess will try to startle society with her flamboyant Persian or Turkish or Hawaiian ball. It would be easy to burlesque Superintendent McAndrew as a British "spy," an under cover agent for Buckingham Palace-even though he was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan...
...pictures in the salon. Since there are not too many pictures, each must be studied. Studied they are appreciated, just as are the pictures hung in a gentleman's private gallery. The artist exhibiting under these conditions finds them ideal for a sale?he has a proper display, his prospect the proper attitude, and usually, aboard fine steamers, the proper purse...