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...Amsterdam Avenue barber-shop by Louis Sherwin of the New York evening Post. So strongly does Barber Valentino feel about his resemblance to Il Duce that, should the occasion arise, he would become the Duce of barbery, form a new party (the White Shirt Barbers of America), transform the United States into the Great White Empire. Officers he would name are: President, Herbert Hoover ("on condition that he would always agree with me"); Mayor James John Walker, General Secretary of the White Army; Will Rogers, Master of Ceremonies in the Imperial White Palace. Barbers would become dukes of the realm...
Eugene O'Neill?"Who has done nothing much in the American drama save to transform it utterly in ten or twelve years from a false world of neat and competent trickery to a world of splendor, fear and greatness...
...used burdock roots to regulate body functions. Dr. Krantz who taught pharmacy at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland until he assumed his present position with Sharp & Dohme (1927), knew that the root contained insulin, a product much like starch. He experimented and found that diabetics did not transform this insulin into harmful sugar. Further, with burdock baked-goods, diabetics needed to take les insulin...
Untrue is the longstanding legend of the Star office that a cub reporter of 15 years ago was fired when he revealed a snake tattooed on his arm.* But it is true and well-remembered that last year a syndicated comic strip was doctored by the Times to transform a tiny snake into a toad (TIME...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...