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...especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...
...Where's Daddy?" they shouted, then, sober-eyed, "Why are you wearing black, Mother? What makes you cry so hard...
...about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige pops her under a shower, proposes for the second time...
...Norristown, Pa., Mrs. Edward H. Le Boutillier told a court that her husband pursued a daily schedule of drinking. Starting at 6 a. m., he was drunk by midmorning, sober by lunch. The afternoon found him in his cups but by 6 p. m. he was back where he started. After dinner he began again, reaching a peak around bedtime. To a hospital for a year the judge sent Edward H. Le Boutillier...