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...shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other spider poison in his experience...
Speaking at a dinner of the Canada Club in London last fortnight, he anticipated the possibility that the Bank might be a disappointment until Canadian bankers were converted to its principle. Puffed he: "When you reflect that not a single depositor has lost a cent in this troublesome period and that the banks are firm and solvent, you will agree that the bankers of Canada may well take credit to themselves. . . . I am not at all sure that Canada may not, before many years are over, become the economic centre of the British Empire...
Worrisome days these--the administration whistles to keep up its courage; the subordinates generally reflect a feeling of uncertainty; whatever figures show a favorable business change are eagerly seized upon, and altogether there never has been a time since last March when the tension appeared any more acute...
...With the Roosevelt Administration in a position to control the radio; with an almost equal power over motion pictures, and with public emotion stimulated to such a tense state that public meetings must of necessity reflect the spirit as well as the letter of inspired governmental propaganda, the only possibility of the U. S. escaping a dictatorship was inherent in the fight of ... journalism for public recognition of the freedom of the Press...
...Blarney Stone from Blarney Castle. Ireland was sent by one John Patrick O'Brien of Dublin to New York's prognathous Mayor John Patrick O'Brien. Said he: "I will treasure this souvenir with the hope that my future career, as in the past, will reflect glory on the native land of my father and mother...