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Vachel Lindsay's latest lyrics come close to that theme, play with it a bit, and then reject it with whole-hearted aversion. To his mind, which delights in parable, analogue, and symbol, the monotonous measure of progress is anathema. In the words of the mixed blood, whose thoughts and fancies are the subject of the poems, one reads the theme of the collection...
...Manhattan, one Saul Fernandez was entertaining some ladies and gentlemen in his home at No. 121 W. 79 St. When Guest Juan Jacuevas uttered an improper remark to a young lady, Host Fernandez leaped at him, seized him by the throat, grasped his nose in his strong white teeth, bit off that nose. Mr. Jacuevas called a policeman. Mr. Fernandez was arrested...
...week. His decision upheld the Rochester Times-Union in its refusal to print advertising copy of the Amalgamated Furniture Factories, Inc., which tried to make the public believe that it manufactured its own furniture. Newspapermen lauded Justice Stephens and the Times-Union; makers of gewgaws, bunion cures, lewd pictures bit their tongues...
...apartment voluntarily. She was not "clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung her to the floor and bit...
...papers mean by referring a me as a squeaky piccolo player, demanded Bob lampoon indignantly. Bob further expressed disgust at the misconstruction of his reception. The morning papers stated that lamp's diminutive janitor was greeted by a shower of rotaries dairy products and gin battles. This was a bit of false in formation bitterly resented by Bob "Why I was the big act," he said in defense, and the fellows only threw money...