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...away their golden coronets, peeresses their tiaras and Parliament was opened in drab mourning. For the first time British historians could remember since the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 those decorative warriors, the Yeomen of the Guard, did not make last week their traditional search of the cellars of Parliament before it convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House...
Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
...first search among New York City psychiatrists brought forth no suitable candidate. A second search among New York State psychiatrists likewise failed. After a third search throughout the nation, authorities found a man who graded 85% in their tests. Last week Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman of Boston was appointed manager of New York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious...
Nowhere in or out of the Bible is there to be found a better description of the Cup of the Last Supper. For a thousand years that drinking vessel has been the object of pious search, the subject of revered romance, throughout the Christian world. Quietly on view in the Brooklyn Museum last week went a great egg-shaped goblet which hundreds of devout folk believe to be the Holy Grail itself. Though in all historical accuracy it probably is no such thing, it is certainly one of the oldest pieces of Christian art extant...
...hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with the professor...