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Peverley's collection, which will be on display for about ten days, includes a German parachute, a blood-stained gunner's pad, two land mines, and several bombs, including an incendiary. One of the bombs has a "howler" attachment, which causes the bomb to "scream" when it falls...
...excretion was often performed in public" and "kings and princesses . . . made conversation while seated on the chaise percée," the news of Cardinal Richelieu's piles had penetrated into every corner of the kingdom of France. To rally the Cardinal during his hemorrhoidal depressions, there used to pad into his room one of the most mysterious, potent and least known of Europe's great power politicians. He was His Grey Eminence, the barefoot Capuchin friar. Father Joseph-for some 20 years Richelieu's second brain...
...once in a blue moon does any large publishing firm pad its circulation figures-the basis on which its advertising is sold-but last week it became evident that one of the largest had done so. The publisher was MacFadden Publications, Inc. (True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, True Romances and seven others) of which 73-year-old Bernarr MacFadden relinquished control three months ago. The story became known when the new management began cleaning house...
...week's end only clues were those sifted from the earth, picked out of victims' flesh: a clock's cogwheel, bomb fragments, strands of fine upholsterer's hair which had been used to pad the dynamite sticks...
...inhabitants of Richland Center, Wis. have two general stores, a cheesebox factory, two weekly newspapers, the county seat and an unconscionable amount of static. Last summer so many irate listeners complained to the city fathers of vacuum cleaner, heating pad and electric razor interference in their radios that the august body had a survey made. Offenders were asked to install condensers and other racket-eliminating gadgets. Few did. So last week the municipally-owned electric company sent electricians from door to door. Methodically they began installing condensers where necessary, charging them to the householder's monthly bill. Penalty...