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...protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...
...market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...
Fortunately there are four acts and the last two rouse themselves remarkably. You find out just what happened to the wife's lover and to the husband's mistress and to their various children. You see it is French, and very little has apparently been done to ease the shock on staid Manhattan nerves. So staid, indeed, are these nerves that the shock will perhaps pass unnoticed. Embers is not a spectacular show; it is just a pretty good Paris problem, more picturesquely solved than usual...
...London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home...
...Until the recording tape had been taken out yesterday morning," said Professor Mather, "we were not quite sure whether the shock was an explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...