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...screen glowed pinkishly; a loud speaker in the same room susurrated A human head appeared on the screen, tiny and wraithlike: its lips moved; simultaneously the loud speaker squawked words. Another head appeared; more words. Hands replaced heads, gestured, poured a liquid, shot a gun, wound a watch; the speaker gurgled, crashed, crackled...
...received a dozen which made his knees bend and his back feel the ropes. Referee Edward Forbes, night sports-editor on the Brooklyn Eagle, stepped forward and stopped the fight, awarding Champion Tunney what is called a technical knockout. Heeney's head was drooping and there was a liquid in his eyes in addition to blood. Tunney went over to him, put two arms on his shoulders, said: "Tom, you are a game man." . . . Promoter George L. ("Tax") Rickard, complaining that the radio was ruining his business and threatening to bar broadcasting in the future, announced a fight deficit...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...gelatin. The gelatinized fed infants gained more, vomited less, regurgitated rarely. Gelatin makes cows' milk more digestible by breaking up the tough, difficultly digested casein allowing the digestive juices to get at the smaller particles; at the same time its spreading sticky quality keeps food down which in liquid form would be immediately rejected by a sensitive irritable stomach. Some idiosyncratic infants, however, may not take kindly to gelatin...