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...Orleans, because she was "crazy for adventure." She was in New York to testify to the innocence of the Sands' crew; she said the other four girl stowaways who were found on navy vessels had probably, like herself, been led only by their own inclination to such extravagant behavior...
Mayor Lake replied by starting a newspaper of his own and getting Sanford advertisers to boycott the Daily Herald. Editor Dean redoubled the investigations of Mayor Lake's strange behavior, charged him with tyrannical rule and misappropriation of funds. The issue came to an ugly head on Aug. 5, 1927, when Mayor Lake was re-elected by a majority of 22 votes. At midnight, a mob of drunken hoodlums started out to punish Editor Dean for maligning People's Choice Lake. Editor Dean stood in the doorway of his home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that...
...especially hot day, they left the boat in the sedges by the river and went to sit near a hayrick where it was shady. Alice, who was sometimes a little brash in her behavior, wanted someone to tell her a story. So Mr. Dodgson began it, while the sleepy children listened. "Alice," he said, "was getting very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what...
...year 1582 a William Shakespeare married an Anne Hathaway. Little is known of the progress of their union, but of their progeny, one fact is certain: Mrs. Shakespeare gave birth to twins. Doubtless this fact, if it did not inspire, at least aided the playwright in accurately describing the behavior of twins as he did in Twelfth Night, as he did again in The Comedy of Errors...
...scheduled to run. Previously she had failed to appear for an entire week in Boston; often before that she had been haphazard in her attentions to business. Because she is undeniably a talented performer, Producers Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman ("Bedroom") Woods had hitherto overlooked the flighty and eccentric behavior of Actress Eagels; but when, after her absence in Milwaukee, she failed to appear in St. Louis, they lost patience with her fragile explanations. Future engagements of Her Cardboard Lover were cancelled; Messrs. Miller and Woods made out charges against their star and referred them to the Actors' Equity...