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...Allen of Ridgewood, N. J. From the past he remembered a brother, sister, two sons. A son and brother came, identified him. From the present in Madisonville, Tenn., his wife, Mrs. Ted Morris, whom he had married in 1912, and a daughter Dolores, 13, came, met his blank stare, his statement that he had no idea where he had been for 22 years. (He had been an automobile mechanic & salesman.) Weeping, Mrs. Morris said, "He was a devoted husband and father. . . . This is almost unbelievable." Promising to take care of Dolores Morris, the Allens took Edgar G. Allen...
...Then he hangs it on the wall or ceiling, classifies and labels it with the aid of pamphlets issued by Washington's University and State College. Mostly from the Middle West come some 30,000 visitors a year to brave a temperature of 10° above zero, stare at the fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget...
Flush with champagne & cognac, as he always is at the close of a dinner, President Kemal began to stare at the Egyptian Minister's red fez. Upon Kemal the effect was that of a red rag on a bull. He ripped out something in Turkish and the Egyptian Minister, flushing as red as his fez, took it off, later sent details of the affront to fat King Fuad...
...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
...stare about the office, but do look about you sufficiently so that . . . you may get out again without knocking over a hatrack...