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...Rotary clubassembled last week to behold a marvel. Awe was in every heart as a man stood among them, all unafraid, and bade an assistant fire revolver bullets at him point blank. "Blam! Blam-blam!" The Rotarians could scarcely believe their eyes as the bullets quite obviously smote their target and still he stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer's fancy waistcoat...
...sweatshirt period" only to sink into the toils of dilettantism. A Dartmouth undergraduate ably reputed Mr. Marks' aspersions and emphatically denied that students "walk about Hanover with tiger ljlies beween their teeth and green carnations pinned to their jackets. Once more the voluble Mr. Marks offers himself as a target for criticism...
Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...court had deferred judgment when Farmer Glatt sued to restrain his pesky neighbors. Before thinking up his fence, Farmer Glatt and family and neighbors practiced marksmanship at an elevated target in the Glatt barnyard but desisted because of the high price of ammunition...
...popular woman journalist in the world" has selected the most glowing bits of her daily stint to throw a beam into a naughty world;- has subtitled it: "Every-day Help for Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing...