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...affiliated gangsters were also murdered last week. Alfonso Fiori, 36, the father of nine children, was found lying in a gutter with his head torn from its moorings by a charge of shotgun slugs. Benjamin J. Schneider, realtor and bootlegger, was shot to death in front of his home...
Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...
...cure say it is bitter; perhaps it is unconstitutional. President Coolidge, though he may not want to, must decide whether this cure is to be administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost purely sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with...
...small crazinesses that the young Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote for undergraduate magazines at Oxford have been exhumed and included; his letters have been gone over for anything that might be torn out of the context; bits (and good bits they are) are stuck in from the diary he kept during a tour on the continent. His genius for parody is at par in a novelette that takes Sir Walter Scott for a dizzy ride. The whole thing is a hodge-podge of good, bad and indifferent, consistently interesting only to a person who takes everything so seriously that he must...
...confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment indulged in by the curled darlings of the nation' a lady appeared who expressed her contempt of such specimens of humanity. Both animals were torn and bleeding, the cat being too much for the dog in the fight for life. The students despatched the tortured cat with a cane, and let the remaining one go, after which becoming alarmed they made their escape. . . . The foregoing is no slight contribution to the controversy going on concerning...