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...titles in Uncle Sham are "The Virgin," "Accidents Will Happen" and "Fairies." Copious material is drawn from Bernarr Macfadden's ill-famed pornoGraphic. Photographs include one showing three U. S. girls in barber chairs with their faces lathered, three barbers standing by with razors upraised. The tongue-in-cheek caption gravely informs the reader that "the Eve of today ... is masculine in her strength . . . goes to the barber and uses the Gillette...
James John Walker passed through the lobby of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, holding a handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...
...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
...vast red hat, symbol of Cardinals, was bestowed on Mgr. Schuster three days later in public consistory. As the Pope bestowed the hat, he pronounced Mgr. Schuster "elevated to the splendor of the Roman purple." The new Cardinal kissed the papal slipper, hand, cheek. He was in turn embraced by the 25 assembled Cardinals, who touched his cheeks with theirs...
...millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone...