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...raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...
UNIVERSITY and colleges in eastern United States were thrown into turmoil when the raging waters of swollen rivers flooded their campuses, cut off water and electricity. Classes became irregular, and many were poorly attended because of difficulty in reaching campus buildings and because of students interest in flood activities. Many institutions threw their buildings open to flood refuges and aided in their care...
...bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...
Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...
...planes went out to circle the front. Monotonously their radios droned directions: A body of Ethiopians had gathered behind such & such rocks on hill so & so. Within ten minutes Italian gunners had the range and were dropping high explosives on those same rocks. But it was hard going. Not irregular white-robed tribesmen but regular drilled and uniformed troops were opposing the Italians. They, too, had artillery and knew how to shoot. For the first time since the war started, Italians had the uncomfortable sensation of shells bursting on their side of the line...