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...miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
...Georges Braque, who took it up almost simultaneously, of Juan Gris, a young Spaniard who took it in 1911 and made it charming, and of Picasso, cubism made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that a red patch seems to advance and a Violet patch to recede, to the most ingenious refinements All paintings, as painters see them, are merely areas of certain colors on flat canvas. Cubism made pictures which everybody could see that...
...patch broken bones doctors use everything from rope to chromium nails. Last week in the Lancet, venerable Dr. Ernest William Hey Groves, emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Bristol, told how he had successfully used hunting trophies and soupbones as scaffolding for fractured arms and legs. Examples...
Finally the gladiators come staggering off the field of combat, gripping their injured members, and collapse on the floor in all the positions the Dying Gaul would have assumed had he been able to move. Immediately after their departure from the ice, which now looks like a strawberry patch after an elephant stampede, the more mundaneminded onlookers rush out and howl with glee at the residue...
...Gosh, we have more fun backstage!" Miss Wiman--"Trink" to her intimates--exclaimed, "the kids are so darn swell. And Durante, he's just the sweetest guy. If anybody gets mad at him, it just breaks his heart. Why, he'll do anything to patch up a squabble. So now, whenever we want him to do anything for us, we just pretend to be sore...