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...that they did not approve of that incident in 1931 when one of the undergraduates throw a grapefruit at me during a performance in Boston. Incidentally, I was playing the saxophone at the time, an if that grapefruit had hit the instrument, the mouthpiece would have Jammed into my throat and either killed me or paralyzed me for life...
...baby which recently enlivened France's great spy gang trial by biting a lawyer (TIME, April 22) snoozed last week as its mother got three years. The other baby, when red-robed Chief Justice Etienne Revol hunched forward to sentence its mother also to three years, let out throat-splitting yells. Thirteen spies received sentences totaling 41 years and ten months...
...first picture in what has become the recognized Wood manner was a portrait of his mother holding a potted sansevieria. At her throat is the identical cameo which he put on his sister and used with such effect a year later in American Gothic. Iowans liked his work. He won the art contest for a sweepstakes prize at the Iowa State Fair, continued to win it year after year...
...Russia may suffer in timed of crisis by appealing to the League, it is worth the risk. Under the forthcoming treaty, the League is given the opportunity of trying to avert the war. If it fails, the military staffs are immediately free to plunge at each other's throat. Once again solicitous France has injected adrenalin into the bloodstream of the League with apparent success...
...swank Kensington home she fondles a fine collection of Oriental objets d'art, hole spiritualist meetings, makes phonograph records of them. Lately she has been untiring in behalf of one Leonard Albert Brigstock, onetime petty officer in His Majesty's Navy, sentenced to hang for slitting the throat of Chief Petty Office Deggan on the gunnery training ship Marshal Soult. Crusader Van der Elst assembled 65,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve; offered to hire a brain surgeon to prove that Brigstock was insane. Nonetheless the trap was due to drop under Brigstock...