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...reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn't really give two hoots in Hell what the SEC Commission does and skips the page...
...Chamber of Commerce. It was the era of great athletes: Bobby Jones, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Cochet, Howie Morenz, Eddie Shore at his best, the Babe, the Rajah, Man o' War. It was a period of cocktail parties and three day parties. It was gilded, vicious, but a hell...
...they swallow even their spittle, or let a trickle of water into their throats when cleaning their teeth. Especially holy are the last ten days of Ramadan, during which falls the "Night of Glory" (or "Power") when God is believed to be releasing the greatest number of souls from Hell. Since it has never been revealed which particular night is the Night of Glory, Moslems must be strict in their religious observances on all ten nights. Because the faithful do their work by day, eat, drink and pray by night, they have little time for sleep and as Ramadan progresses...
...handsome, attractive, and possessing the "initiative, ingenuity and abilities that are characteristic of leaders," Thief Conwell seems alternately proud and ashamed of his profession, was probably most sincere when he wrote: "It involves as much hard work as any other business. There is little thrill about it. . . . What the hell could anyone find to like about stealing, working hard all the time, always being likely to land in the can, paying over to the coppers and the fixers everything he gets...
...suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...