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...case must also be cited, as witnessed by Sir Arnold Hodson, of a woman buried up to her neck for three days until some one finished her with a large rock. With absolute indifference for life, lepers numbering about 100,000 are permitted to wander freely in Ethiopia, with the perpetual danger of contagion...
...several minor parties running for 63 seats and nothing certain except that Premier Richard Gavin Reid of the United Farmers Party, which came in on a landslide in 1921, would go out into limbo as a victim of Depression. When returns began to trickle in, when Montreal's rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that 57 of the 63 seats in Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer...
Young Author Flandrau nevertheless found conforming difficult. Editors lured him with attractive offers. The best of Author Flandrau's anecdotes deal with Satevepost's George Horace Lorimer, "the most insidiously seductive Lorelei of them all ... perched on a rock known as the Curtis Publishing Company overlooking the human tide that ebbs and flows along Independence Square in Philadelphia." Author Flandrau had written pure, sexless, nonalcoholic short stories, a good clean serial called The Diary of a Freshman, when Editor Lorimer wanted him to write the diary of a professor. Author Flandrau fled to Europe. The editor, using "diplomatic...
...print a letter [Aug. 12] from J. Rosser Venable of Little Rock, concerning what he terms as "Wall Street Joe Robinson." Better check up on Yenable. a man who runs for some office or other practically every election, and who is defeated by the voters each time he runs. Only this week he has announced that he will run against Joe Robinson for the Senate in the coming election...
...lung disease contracted by inhaling volcanic rock dust...