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...Norwalk, Conn., one Joseph Beres, restaurant proprietor, went out duck shooting with a buddy. All day they crouched in a blind. Few ducks came their way. Proprietor Beres grew restless, racked his brains for diversion, hit upon a scheme. Taking a 50-cent piece out of his pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew...
These times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While...
...popping the gaudy ducks, and the ducks did not mind even when they were hit. One night last week he hobbled up to the counter, threw down his crutches, paid a dime. His first shot did no harm. His second he put carefully through his own head. In his pocket police found a note to his mother...
...Loucheur his Finance Minister he has firmly drawn to himself the 45 odd votes Loucheur and his friends are supposed to control in the Chamber. When Loucheur vanished, his votes remained with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...
...Dybbuk. It has remained for the Neighborhood Playhouse, tiny and difficult of access, to give what is probably the most inspiring and eventful entertainment of the season. Entertainment is scarcely the word, since The Dybbuk has been described as a pocket edition of The Miracle, doing for the Jewish religion what that stately spectacle did for Christianity...