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...conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard battle for their adoption, and naturally does not want to let any opportunity slip by without having another shot at his target...
...which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests" and volunteered to defend the populace from their "schemes...
Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...
...carpenter who went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles way blows it away...
...General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete or obsolescent," and told how, in an attempt to find a suitable range for target practice for pursuit planes, when finally a suitable place was found for a rental of one dollar a year the War Department did not want to part with the dollar, although it finally did so. General Howze, President of the Court, inquired: "Who was responsible for the delay...