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...because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes. She kept count of the number of times jailers forcibly rammed food down her throat. The count was 232. Once she gnawed a hole in her prison mattress, made a heap of the stuffings, twisted pages of her cell Bible into tapers, smashed her cell window and reached to the gas light outside for the flame which set her cell on fire...
...these discomforts over, the remainder of Mr. de la Mare's essay expresses a sensitive poet's delicate admiration of these notes flung from the throat of the greatest songster of them all-the Muse's charm flowering in the lonely word, and the essential 'rightness' of this word that is Shakespere's and no other's. Screened through the younger poet's interpretation, we reread the songs with new delight...
...many Prophylactic toothbrushes has been spread toothpaste made by the Lambert Co. Likewise on many a Prophylactic shaving brush has been squeezed Lambert's shaving cream. And in many a medicine chest Prophylactic hairbrushes repose side by side with bottles of Lambert's Listerine and boxes of Lambert's throat tablets. Last week a merger was announced between Lambert Co. and Prophylactic Brush Co., on terms of one share of Lambert for two of Prophylactic. Although Lambert's $5,500,000 total assets are not double Pro-phy-lac-tic's $4,032,000, Lambert's high earnings make...
...September 1929, the Anti-Sweet campaign was succeeded by a series built around the line An Ancient Prejudice Has Been Removed. The ancient prejudice was the idea that cigarets were bad for the throat; the removal had been accomplished by Lucky Strike's special process -toasting. Recently and currently, however, Luckies have gone back to a more moderate treatment of the slenderness theme, but now are anti-fat rather than anti-sweet. Current Lucky advertisements, illustrated with pictures of single-chinned people throwing double-chinned shadows, urge readers to "Avoid That Future Shadow" by refraining from overindulgence. Copy says...
Author Paul Alverdes, 33, writes from his own experience. The son of a German army officer, he volunteered at 17, served with the German artillery, early in the War was shot through the throat. After a year and a half in the hospital he was discharged as unfit for further service. He lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet...