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Readers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Beheld this box over the Eagle's frontpage story of Ohio's prison holocaust early last week. The Eagle's account was by the Associated Press. The most gruesome detail (in a description of the deaths of over 300 men by fire) which the Eagle permitted itself to print was this: "Fire and smoke both claimed the lives of the convicts who perished...
Section Two, "The Age of Steam," showed man in a somewhat better light. The audience beheld the emergence of the mechanical engineer and some of his inventions. Toward the end this act took on the gala aspect of a football game as a parade of students appeared bearing banners with the names of various engineering schools. After a short stretch showing how the society was founded "Control," now almost full grown, again popped to the front of the stage, said: ". . . Engineering . . . has been one of the means . . . by which civilization has advanced...
...Thomasville, Ga., sightseers were unable to view the "Famous-White-faced-Gorilla, the-most-marvelous-creature-ever- beheld-by-man," because the owner of the gorilla, J. D. Owens, and the gorilla were too drunk to stand...
...estimation you have performed the most courageous piece of publishing in the current year. Never, I think, was I so shocked as when I first beheld that leering countenance within our beloved red borders. My first reaction was that you men had gone out of your minds. But then, out of a sense of loyalty, I read what you had to tell about this figure and I perceived your purpose...
Before a quiet house with drawn shades he beheld a silent congregation. He went inside. The air was sweet with the smell of many flowers banked around the lower rooms. To a little grey-haired lady who was trying very hard to be composed, the President spoke in gentle consolation. He offered her the use of the White House or any other facility of the U. S. she wanted. As he emerged a few minutes later he lifted his bowed head to nod a greeting to Chief Justice Hughes going...