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...tiger to reach the U. S. alive. The Sultan of Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth of the hole while a box was slipped under it. This specimen...
...session's closing day when, snoring loudly, he napped on a lounge in the House lobby, with a white lily in one hand, in the other a bill for Federal eradication of venereal diseases by an expenditure of $50,000,000. Said he on leaving the Capitol : "The smell of liquor on all sides has sickened...
Compared to other accessories of modern photography, the noise, smoke and smell of flashlight powder are anachronistic. General Electric told last week of a new fiashlamp, with smell, smoke and noise eliminated...
About this time a smell of frying bacon from the Parliamentary kitchen permeated the House, and so many members rushed out to breakfast that only desperate efforts by the whips maintained a quorum (40). With all but inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced...
...other hand the report does not in fact smell of "British hypocrisy" though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...