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...idea was to electrify a strip of metal around the building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...
...rude shock is Sir Stilton Byles. In stead of expensive sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...
...first time, Term III for Franklin Roosevelt last week began to look like a political impossibility. That thought, growing in the Capitol, spread down the green stretch of the Mall, into the tomblike buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue. Washington, dimly and by degrees, had a foretaste of the shock that will come to the country if Franklin Roosevelt removes himself from the political scene...
...gave the U. S. this shadowy shock was big Jim Farley. One night the little bells of the nation's news-tickers began to tinkle; clacking, wiry fingers tapped out under glass: "To clear up any misunderstanding, let me say that my name will be presented to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and that's that...
...Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Scudder has tried an extract of the adrenal cortex (eschatin) to save patients already in shock after operations and severe burns. In a newly published text (Shock-Lippincott-$5.50) he reported that cortical extract snatched 14 persons from death after transfusions and oxygen had failed...