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...Calumet, Mich., world-weary John Korr, 55, put a stick of dynamite in his trousers pocket, lit the fuse, walked into a room where his landlady Mary Chopp and her daughter were sitting. They fled. John Korr ran after them, chased them until the dynamite exploded, blew him to bits...
...sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action, as their owner heads for home. Even the taxi men may smile. They know him. He is "the stout...
...ministers arrange to marry Henry to Anne of Cleves but she falls in love with the courier he sends to invite her to England. To spite Henry, she makes faces at him when they meet. The king is infuriated when, on their wedding night, she wins most of his pocket money, playing cards...
Governor Lehman of New York took to his bed with a sharp pain in his side late last week-sub-acute appendicitis-but not before he had helped rid his State of an acute pain in the pocket book. All week in his Manhattan apartment he had continued conferences between the city's bankers, officials of the New York Stock Exchange and prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. The last, counseled by orchid-wearing old Samuel Untermyer, persisted stubbornly in his proposal to pile a city tax on top of the Federal and State taxes on stock transfers...
...promise him their united support if he continues with the same energy toward the same goal." Little Dollfuss, knowing that he must have the support of the Great Powers for his new Constitution before he dare present it formally to Austria, popped the draft text into his pocket last week, hopped for Geneva to lay his plans before the representatives of Britain, France and Italy attending the League of Nations' 14th Assembly. If any further evidence was needed of the mounting power of Emil Fey, it came that day. Repeatedly in the past month good Christian Chancellor Dollfuss...