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...nothing to him. It is his boast that any egg that can be laid he can embroider; he has tried them from ostriches' to pigeons'. The Kahn method is first to blow the egg, then to drill thousands of minute holes through the shell, to run colored threads through the holes to form the design. No thread transfixes the entire egg; every, knot and thread end is made on the inside of the shell...
There was once a most shy bank clerk whom his associates called "Bunnie." He was a most efficient bank clerk with heavy spectacles, long, grey trousers, large nose, watery eyes, and a limp. All day long he sat at a high stool in Thread needle Street whisking a great quill pen over the interminable pages of a vast ledger. For years he had done this and he had done it well. And then a change came over Bunnie; he became less conscientious, more preoccupied and took to biting off the feathers on his quill. Love has touched him. Now this...
Last week to a group of Chicago zoologists Professor Wright urged that his hypothesis was correct. He had nursed a thread-like toe on a freak guinea pig into regular, tweakable toes on its descendants. Members of that race now regularly have 19 toes...
...honesty enter the ranks of public servants. Mr. Castle was writing only of the State Department, but his sentiments apply as well to all branches of the service. The value of a public career is not to be measured by the fortune amassed or the skeins of gold thread on the dinner coats, or the fame acquired. It is more nearly to be found in the purpose which prompted the career and the effectiveness with which that purpose was fulfilled...
...feeling. "I wouldn't mind it if the old fool would just put down the day's lectures and have done, but he seems to feel it incumbent upon him to unburden the secrets of his soul and his subconscious mind." "Yes," the first member was taking up the thread of the yarn, "and by the time he's written half a column he is so wound up in himself that he forgets where the lecture is or who is talking...