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...UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE-George W. Stimpson-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An interesting compendium of little-known facts by a Washington newspaper correspondent who has gathered odd items of information all his life. It tells why a patrol wagon is called a Black Maria (there used to be a husky Negro woman bouncer in a Boston boarding house with that name); what U. S. President was a citizen of France (Washington); what is the lion's share (all). A handy book for people who like to win arguments...
...congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from...
...proved himself an actor in the role of Leonora's husband. Basso Emanuel List was at his best as the easy-going jailer. But it was Norway's Kirsten Flagstad who did most to make the performance a popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week it sounded amazingly fresh, proved without doubt that...
Every summer the University fails to give several of its dormitory rooms the elemental care that they deserve. Every September a certain number of students return to College to find themselves lodged in sites with dirty walls and even dirtier ceilings. It is not uncommon in some of these rooms to find sizeable areas of peeling paint and bare plaster. Such conditions, in contrast with better kept accomodations, are unneccessary and distinctly unfair to the occupants...
...Lord." "She was saved from the sins she had committed," said old Mr. Tapp confidently, "but the sinful nature remained. Now that nature has died and her present condition occurs." He summed up: "Shirley is suffering for the whole world." Declared Mrs. Tapp: "This sort of thing is not uncommon among us. But we are mighty proud of Shirley...