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...speech reached Bewdley, his birthplace, a "Stability Baldwin" rally was held by the Venerable Guild of Bewdley Clay Pipe Makers. While guildsmen puffed their long-stemmed clay pipes, a onetime Mayor of Bewdley, Joseph ("Fiery Joe") Oakes, declaimed the speech entire, only stopping now and then to puff, at a pipe, which he said, "Was first smoked by Stanley Baldwin himself, when he was last among...
...countless shipyards along the snow blown coast, yachts are perched on stanchions like huge huddled birds, shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers of other yachtsmen building palaces that float. Last week arrived in New York the Savarona, longest motor yacht in the world, built at Wilmington, Del., for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. Experts, friends, reporters scrambled along her decks absorbing her astounding luxuries, delved in her engine rooms peering at gauges...
...Hips accentuated by moulded lines and girdle or puff effects...
...special section, the General Electric Co. exhibited a photo-electric cell by means of which the sun itself could automatically turn on and off the lights in street lampposts. In another section, detectors were shown, so sensitive that merely a puff of breath on the tubes would cause gongs to clamor. Said Fire Commissioner...
...bacteria-say 'germs' if you prefer-finding suitable food, multiply and form groups, or colonies. Each colony represents the growth from one bacterium. These colonies were counted and by calculation the total number of germs clinging to the part of the powder puff used was obtained. This number multiplied by four of course gave the total count for the entire puff. It was 20,000. Twenty thousand bacteria clinging to a powder puff to be used on a clean face...