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Earl Baldwin, thrice Prime Minister of Britain, weighed down with a crimson robe festooned with miniver, had to go thirsty. He was standing just outside the House of Lords fidgeting with a black cocked hat. waiting to be inducted. A thin stream of dignitaries trickled towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor...
When withering and decomposition started, The Bronx botanists cut off parts of the plant which they prepared for a pickling process involving chromic and acetic acid, alcohol, xylol and melted paraffin. The pickled pieces will be sliced .005 millimetres thin with a microtome, stained for study under the microscope. One thing the scientists especially hope to learn is the mechanism of Amorphophallus titamim's titanic stench...
...career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers and a turret-top collar can make Clark Gable look, sound or act like the uncrowned King of Ireland...
...Texas, an "East Dallas Special" is a thin, sharp knife wielded by Negro desperadoes. An East Texas Special is the fat, dull extra-section edition of the Longview News, published annually to celebrate the "natural or man-made resources of East Texas," among which are oil, roses, yams, timber, tomatoes, ribbon cane. Last year, the News claimed the world's record for a daily's volume with 350 pages. Last week its East Texas news, boosting editorials and local advertising swelled up to 370 pages, a new high...
High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...