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...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
...Governor so I can enforce it." The crowd cheered lustily. Later "C. N." Haskell was elected the State's first Governor and "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, who also thought the constitution was his, was chosen first Speaker of the Legislature. Slinging a belt and a six-shooter around his waist, Governor Haskell took office...
...termites are commonly called "white ants." But they are not ants and are not always white. Termites maybe readily distinguished from ants by the absence of a '"waist" or constriction where abdomen joins thorax. They look more like tiny cockroaches, but they have a social organization antlike in its complexity...
Died. Albert St. John Harmsworth, 57, youngest brother of Viscount Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe; in Vergez, France. Paralyzed from the waist down since an automobile accident in 1906. he had invented an electric wheelchair from which to direct his large mineral water business (Perrier) at Vergez. Lord Northcliffe once offered ?100,000 to anyone who could cure his brother, often declared: "He has more brains than all the rest of the Harmsworth family...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...