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...orchestra, the Essex County Symphony, completed its second week of concerts under Erno Rapée in a stadium near Newark, N. J. Audiences discovered that no longer need they suffer from New Jersey's mosquitoes, thanks to a new larvicide with which the air was sprayed...
Partner Meighan had to take the rap because he was the only partner who was an Exchange member. Summing up the case, the New York Times declared: "Wall Street observers felt . . . that neither the New York Stock Exchange nor the Curb Exchange had added to their prestige by their handling of the case of Walter P. McCaffray...
History can repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...
...which is always black, and his mastication, which is interminable. A wholesale dealer in female good looks, he has never married. "I'm independent and nobody can keep tab on what I do," says he. "I like it. And with any luck I'll beat this marriage rap...
Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to raise a terrific hubbub and demand that the express be held while you telegraph the nearest U. S. Legation which in the Balkans will reply faster than you would think. Usually the express will wait...