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...reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...
...seem to understand it,& Gilbert F. Bonner, a big black Southern Negro kept insisting to White House attaches as he camped outside President Hoover's office door. A "prophet of doom," Bonner wore an old Army uniform (he used to be a quartermaster sergeant), with a blue cheesecloth turban on his head. Small gilt crucifixes dangled from every blouse pocket. White House guards let him sit day after day in the lobby, vainly waiting to carry his "message" to the President...
...clubs whacked about bumptious heads on the streets of New Orleans. At Hammond, 42 mi. away, three men shot out a political argument; the loser was killed, the winners wounded. In Jefferson Parish shotguns bristled about a barn where citizens were forced to "vote right or else?" behind transparent cheesecloth. Louisiana was holding a Democratic primary which was equivalent to a regular election...
...venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets and properties, concocted on her own sewing-machine cheesecloth costumes for Aïda, Carmen, Otello. Miraculously the first season ended without a deficit...
...believer in universality. . . . I presume that there are at the present moment in this city [Manhattan] paintings and objects of art to an aggregate $250,000,000 buried in the vaults of art dealers or covered with cheesecloth in private residences, closed up most of the year, where even the owners receive no enjoyment from them. . . . I believe that with the purpose generally understood much of this 'dead art' can be brought back to life in the interest of American culture. . . . Let us start the art of the country in circulation. . . I am not claiming credit for originating...