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...would like to ask horn-hating Cecil P. Brown if he has ever turned a corner to find his way completely blocked by playing children. Or has he come upon unmindful chickens or dogs, which I find usually respond to a horn's blast and scamper aside to safety...
...19th Century. He was knighted by the Emperor of Austria, awarded high Saracenic orders by the Bey of Tunis. In the U. S., Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
That juncture has now virtually arrived, Mr. Takahashi asserted, recalling that for months Government issues have labored under the nicknames "deficit bonds" and "red ink bonds." As an example of how the Government could save money, Old Takahashi pleaded with the fighting services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese...
...hard and bitter, the Chens derive five hypodermic doses of thevetin. Upon injection thevetin flows directly to the heart, strengthens the action of the heart muscle. The Chens' good friend, Dr. Albert Hyman of Manhattan, used the new drug on failing heart cases that had ceased to respond to digitalis. Results, beamed Dr. Hyman last week, "were extremely satisfactory...
...secure--for the present. Meanwhile a conciliatory attitude by England should be a potent factor in dispelling the "ring of steel" attitude of mind from the German people which Chancellor Hitler has been at such pains to foster. The war spirit in Germany is entirely too artificial not to respond to intelligent treatment...