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...marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares...
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...pending November general elections. For his cabinet he chose five of the "colonel group." With the aid of his War veterans' organization, he may be able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours out a string of abuse on the Sejm (Lower Chamber), its members and the present Polish constitution. The worst expletive newshawks have felt free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual...
...night Turgis nearly strangles her, to his own and the reader's great surprise. For that evening he wallows in the melancholy of a murderer, and afterwards in (hat of a jobless man. Solace comes to him, however, in the unbeautiful Poppy Sellers, second-string stenographer...
...Crampton his sixth and eighth. Casey missed his twelfth, leaving young King ahead until he missed his 14th. Then Casey missed his 19th, Scott and King shot along even until the 22nd bird. There Scott cracked, dropped three birds in a row while young King coolly ran out his string for the championship...