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When the governor martialed his shock troops and the legislature replied by enlisting sheriffs and sheriffs' posses in its behalf, the rest of the country may well have begun to wonder who was and who was not in power in Oklahoma. The question has had a pretty clear answer in the special election on Tuesday. By a large majority the people of Oklahoma delivered Governor Walton the rebuke which he deserved. Since it is hardly conceivable that such a great proportion of the people should be Klansmen, one can assume that sympathy with the Ku Klux had little influence...
...subject of obtaining a piece of cloth for trousers has been declined, so that I, Suslov, at the present time remain entirely undressed, and it is even impossible to take off my fur coat in the presence of ladies, because I, for lack of good trousers, may shock the lady or disgrace myself. In case of such an occurrence, I, Suslov, will not consider myself responsible. Secondly, I have not a pound of flour or a piece of bread, so that I must report to duty hungry. In view of the above-mentioned urgent necessities, I beg you to grant...
...been learned (by Science Service) that the "secret chemical" rumored during the War to have been given German soldiers to endow them with supernormal energy was sodium dihydrogen phosphate. This salt was administered in the form of a drink to the shock troops as they entered battle or during long marches. For psychological reasons other battalions were served with a sham stimulant at the same time, acidulated with tartaric instead of phosphoric acid...
...Story. Harold Prewett met his father for the first time at the age of 21. His mother had died in childbirth and that shock, and the disappointment occasioned by Harold's not being a girl, had so disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters...
...herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which the lovers are climbing to the moon...