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...patch broken bones doctors use everything from rope to chromium nails. Last week in the Lancet, venerable Dr. Ernest William Hey Groves, emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Bristol, told how he had successfully used hunting trophies and soupbones as scaffolding for fractured arms and legs. Examples...
...aggressive act on the part of the totalitarian powers which an aroused set of democracies will refuse to stomach. The democracies will not themselves precipitate the crisis. But they will, if they continue their half-hearted resistance, encourage their potential enemies to drive on to the end of the rope. Conversely, a truly positive stand, coupled with an honest recognition of the necessity of peaceful change, can-or at least offers the best chance to -avert...
Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...
...were signs lacking that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies. And the pace of the German dictatorship quickened as more & more guns rolled from factories and little more butter was produced...
...their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed the blessings of the miracle of deliverance, and witnesses of the event took pains to sidle along the banister as far removed as possible from the wall of dripping doom. It seems a bit inconsistent of the University to rope off countless areas in the spring just to tear off a few shingles, and now when Nature's guillotines are threatening to eradicate us all, they are just sitting there in University Hall with all their catalogues, ignoring everybody...