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...they submitted to Dr. Sawyer's method and then to bites of the yellow fever mosquito. Thus the Sawyer principle of prevention would be proved indubitably. Dr. Lloyd offered himself as a testee, if he can get enough life insurance to protect his family "in case of any untoward result...
...regard this game as a splendid idea," Mayor Russell stated yesterday. "It will do much to restore good feelings between the 'Playboys' and the Police, and to avoid further rioting." He expressed a hope that it would end without any untoward incident. Mr. Bacon could not be reached last night but he also is reported as being pleased at the good feeling which prevails...
...exactly on speaking terms." Since, if they abstain from voting at all, the election will go to von Hindenburg, and if they vote for von Hindenburg, of course the majority will go in his favor; it looks as though the coming election will be his; unless some untoward happening changes the likely order of things...
When the Pacific Ocean was finally crossed nonstop by an airplane last week, the feat caused barely more excitement than many of the attempts and untoward incidents preceding it. Manhattan evening papers considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been...
...station in Rome, Il Duce was waiting for them, beaming with pleasure, poking his Fascist yes-men in the ribs. The German statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists on one corner suddenly bellowed HOCH HITLER! as the cortege passed. At the hotel a frock-coated manager proudly told the Chancellor of Germany that he would have the honor of sleeping in the same room once used by the late John Pierpont Morgan...