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...rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...
...mistakes. Dr. Tugwell's opponents unearthed a list of judgments obtained under that act and published by the Department of Agriculture last January. On the list, between one order approving the destruction of 99 boxes of wormy dressed herring and another assessing a $25 fine for shipping canned razor clams in too much brine, was a third order signed by R. G. Tugwell, Acting Secretary of Agriculture. This case concerned a shipment of "canned grapefruit juice and canned orange juice, sample cans of which were found to contain less than the declared volume." Following a plea of "guilty...
Henri Rochette whipped out a razor sharp knife. Right in the middle of the court room he slashed his throat from ear to ear. Carefully tucked inside Henri Rochette's hat was a note...
...baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle a small piece of wood with a razor blade...
...what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing, but had changed his mind about being a detective. Johnny paid her a heartfelt...