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Further down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp...
William and Tilli go down to Monk's Hall, where Trevor at his cousin's expense has organized an asylum for greedy and communistic artists. Tilli's purpose has a great deal to do with Trevor, whose casual desertion of her in London has moved her to the effort of retaliation. Monk's Hall is swept by the draughts of a thousand petty enmities, jealousies, hungers, hatreds. When William finds Trevor in his wife's bedroom he does the natural thing, the thing that was expected of him. He takes a shotgun and follows...
Divorced. Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso; from Yolle Ignatievna Chaliapin whom he married 29 years ago and from whom he has been separated 21 years; in Moscow. Until death, he will pay her $300 monthly. Said a Soviet critic: "It is enough money to maintain an entire Russian orphan asylum...
Hearing this, it was said that Prime Minister Benito Mussuloni of Italy had forthwith wired to Prince Carol offering him asylum on Italian soil, the inference of course being that Italy's aspirations in the Balkans would benefit if Carol were recalled to Rumania as King...
Behold This Dreamer looks at each of its auditors, quizzical, mocking, and asks if he is mad. Behind this look is the tale of a man who went to an insane asylum and found happiness. He was not sure that he was mad; sure he did not love his wife. His father-in-law, a successful manufacturer of brushes, thought that not loving his wife was proof that he was mad; that he hated the brush factory further evidence; had him committed. Indulging his artistic dreams in the asylum he painted a masterpiece, was proudly extricated by the brush...