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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1921
Page
2
In a Birmingham courthouse tale a defendant claims a kiss under mistletoe as his defense. The wife questions the scene, asking if a mistletoe sprig hung over his roadster weighed on her.
The quote notes that professional sprinters react to a pistol while the general public responds to the sound of a motor horn. It contrasts elite race start cues with ordinary ambient sounds as a metaphor for speed and timing.
A curious corruption links wolves bane to the Greek term leukos meaning white. A misstep dropped the e turning leukos into lukos which in Greek means wolf, clarifying the name origin for this plant.
A man introduces his brother to a group of men in a Texas saloon and declares him not only a brother but his personal fiend. The scene evokes frontier barroom talk as the two men assert kinship and loyalty amid the local crowd.
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