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...Cecil B. de Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version of the Testaments...
...eaters, Bandits. "Robbed and maltreated by bandits. Have Nambikuara and Pareccis collections," said a cablegram dated May 5 at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Francis Gow-Smith, explorer and ethnologist for the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). The Museum was relieved, having feared him lost in Matto Grosso (thick forest) Province, Brazil. He had previously been reported as having eaten Christmas dinner with Commander Dyott in an Indian village. He had described the Nambikuara Indians as: most primitive; eating only raw food (snakes included) ; wearing a macaw feather in their noses; and no clothes. Mr. Gow-Smith, more than...
...breakfast time, peel a banana. Lay it on a plate of ample size and ladle over it thick orange marmalade. Eat with a spoon, munching at the same time hot, buttered toast. Sip coffee...
...John--John--tell me." Appleby's voice was thick, his nose ran, his young face looked years older. Divisionals and g-n are hard on a growing...
President Hernando Siles named two seconds. They called on the seconds of Dr. Calvo. Over thick cigars and thin-stemmed glasses there was talk. Then the four seconds, shrewd, announced that Dr. Calvo had turned his back on President Siles by accident, that there had been no insult, would be no fight...