Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa.
Parental Principle. In McKees Rocks, Pa., Agnes Vukson won a divorce on grounds that her husband, doggedly following a principle laid down by his father, thrashed her soundly three times a day.
Next to Godliness. In Victoria, B.C., Witness Nora Johnstone daintily declined to kiss the court's Bible because "it might not be clean," dipped into her handbag for her own tissue-wrapped Bible.
Direct Action. In Omaha, a customer underestimated...