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...poetry contains no direct appeals to the proletariat and her symbols of revolt are imaginative. The world of which she writes is chaotic, bloody, violent, filled with crimes of perversity, such as are suggested by a recollection of Loeb & Leopold: how they removed his glasses and philosophically slit his throat. Man's conquest of nature, primarily his conquest of space, is symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers, by technical discussions of flight, by a glimpse of a young aviator awakening. These are contrasted, in a sequence whose pattern is not clear, with scenes...
...chorus-girl in London, 21-year-old Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, announced: "My parents are putting up no objections. I made up my mind to become an actress when I was in socks." Down upon a San Francisco landing field flew Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and a throat specialist named Dr. Joel J. Pressman. Because an airline clerk had booked them as "Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Pressman," newscameramen were waiting. Deserting Miss Colbert, Dr. Pressman fled across the field...
...Lome township, Ontario, Canada, William Minkinen, 55, leaped from a high rock into Vermillion River, slashing his throat with & knife in his right hand, holding a lighted stick of dynamite in his left. The cut was superficial, the explosion blew off his left hand. William Minkinen died of drowning...
...Harvard accent," according to the Bulletin, is easy. There is no such thing. Citizens of the rolling-R States confuse it with the Boston accent (Hahvahd, haht, cah, etc.), which is the same as the New England accent, except that its point of origin is in the throat rather than the nose...
...Camels are kind to Mrs. Lowell's throat...