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When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
...Harry Stewart New, marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from...
Resigned. Dr. Oskar von Miller, 78; as director of Munich's Deutsche Museum, world's greatest natural and technical science museum, which he founded. (Visitors push buttons, pull levers, see the machines work. A Munich law requires every child over 10 to visit the museum once a year...
...retired from railroading. Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent. Mr. Storey-six feet tall, broad-shouldered, mustached and amply goateed-was no "high-powered" executive, never had a push button on his desk. When he went to Manhattan directors' meetings, his directors (among them such men as Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and Charles Steele of J. P. Morgan) did not enter the board room until he led the way, always greeted him with...
...permanently arched tail is the result of an operation and an excruciatingly painful setting process. A veterinarian cuts and breaks the horse's tail much as an unskilled woodsman might hack and push down a sapling. Incisions are made on, the upper side, the flexor muscles on the under side cut eight to twelve inches back from the base. Then the tail is doubled back, tightly bandaged, supported by an iron "bustle." Three weeks are usually required for the tail to heal and set. Thrown into a sweating frenzy by this prolonged torture, horses often lose more than...