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...induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...proved, Cott says, by the astonishing variety of color-causes. Some caterpillars are green because their blood absorbs chlorophyll from their food; others because they are transparent, revealing the green food inside them. A South American sloth acquires a concealing greenish hue from symbiotic algae which live on his fur...
...circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...
...little Turkish general in the black lamb's fur cap of the Kamâlists went to Lausanne to discuss permanent peace terms with the Allies. The British condescendingly had the conference postponed for ten days because of a general election at home, and Ismet used this time to visit Raymond Poincare and sow a little discord between the Allies...
...troubles. With a funded debt of $670,133,000 in 1938, B. & O. had to pay out $32,184,000 in fixed charges. That year the line lost $13,124,530 and it looked as if the courts came next. But Uncle Dan made the fur fly, got $8,233,000 from his old friend Jesse Jones, sold a ditch of a canal to PWA for $2,000,000, persuaded Congress to pass the Chandler Act, so astutely worded that it helped no other trunk line, but let B. & 0. cut its fixed charges...