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...whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked for pulchritude, the ladies of the cast are not all expert mimes, but little Mr. Truex, with his hair plastered down over his eyes and his hand thrust into his waistcoat, is splendid...
Oklahoma State Capitol, was shaving Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray when the Governor suddenly thrust him aside, threw off the apron, rushed from the scene. The barber had nicked the Governor's chin. Alarmed. Barber Riggs turned his shop over to Barber G. N. Glenn who, on order of the State Board of Affairs, finally paid Barber Riggs $1,200 for his franchise...
...rocks. Starving, last week he entered a village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
Having an idle moment I glanced at the correspondence in a copy of TIME. Distance lends enchantment, but in any case I found your replies brief and piercingly to the point. But I was struck by the difference between the system of thrust and parry, illustrated by your pages devoted to the letters of clients, and that of any normal argument...
While Fisticuffer Max Schmeling, "heavyweight champion of the world," was talking with a group of friends in the Commodore Hotel Lobby in Manhattan, a slight, 19-year-old boy approached him. thrust out a paper and said: "Here's a summons for you." Then he dropped the paper at the fighter's feet. What happened then is told by him in a legal deposition: "Schmeling. his face working in anger, yelled at the top of his voice and then . . . grabbed the seat of my trousers and violently rushed me to the stairway, shaking me in all directions...