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...colossi often have foot-trouble and Jesse Jones's 6 ft. 3 in. is no exception. On the days when he works ten or twelve hours-a habit his childless wife, whom he married when he was 46, has not been able to break him of-his feet bother him. An earthy humorist, he likes to tell stories on his feet. Once he leaned out of his car in Manhattan and startled a policeman by enquiring in a soft drawl: "Officer, what kind of shoes do you wear? I have lots of trouble with my feet and just...
Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...
...Editor Howe was tired of running a small-town daily. Said he: "People bother me. I don't know why Tom Eglinger didn't get his paper night before last and I don't want to be bothered by his complaint." By that time, the Globe was making $30,000 a year. Editor Howe sold it to his staff for $50,000, used the money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly...
...along Ethel Barrymore." Hearty applause died abruptly as Actress Barrymore strode imperiously to the platform's edge. Her voice quivered with rage. "Miss Le Gallienne does you great honor to be here," she began. "I do you honor to be here. I don't see why we bother to speak to you at all. You have no appreciation. You don't know anything. You never have known anything. You never will know anything. I don't see why we speak to you, especially to a moronic audience such as we have in Philadelphia...
...Helpern pictured the addicts passing a filthy hypodermic syringe from one to another. Impatient to flood their veins with heroin, they did not bother to sterilize the needle which transferred germs from one man's blood to another...