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...francs ($8,300). . . . Greatest achievement from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women's patent leather pumps with the tongues representing Leon Blum wearing a red tie, these shoes priced at 1,000 francs ($37.50) the pair and displayed to the public in a bird cage...
...During Dr. Cutler's regime Cashier Norton was on such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully recalled, Dean Elder had wanted to thrash Cashier Norton as a "peeping Tom," Last week Defendant Elder told the court that Accuser Norton...
...capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last solenodon died, New York's Zoological Park has had the only one in the U. S. New York's solenodon, a female, is one of a pair purchased in Santiago, Santo Domingo. The price, $100 each, was really a courtesy gesture. Collectors have asked (but not received) $10,000 for a solenodon. Shortly after the trip to New York the male died, but a few weeks after her arrival the female gave birth, surprising the entire staff...
...door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
...fainted, had to be revived with cold compresses. In Los Angeles, Naturalist Chapman put them into a large screened building divided into pens running partly underground. Now, though Naturalist Chapman is dead, there are well over 1,000 healthy chinchillas on Chapman Chinchillas Inc.'s farm. One pair is capable of producing 126 babies in six years. From the Chapman chinchillas, no other chinchilla farms have been started in the U. S. Prime pelts will not be available for four or five years, but breeding pairs sell...