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...Pepper Martin. Franklin C. Watkins of Philadelphia won the first Carnegie prize of $1.500 and also the Albert C. Lehman prize of $2,000 for the best purchasable painting. Hero Watkins' prizewinner was a large oval canvas entitled "Suicide in Costume." It showed the body of a grimacing clown with a smoking revolver clutched in one hand, sprawled over a bed. In manner it was a little reminiscent of the late great George Bellows and Jean Louis Forain...
Edward W. Gardner, commercial agent at Apia, Samoa who went clown in a hurricane in 1863 with the Anita...
...Zambezi Valley, Northern Rhodesia, Rev. Myron Taylor met the missionary's traditional foe. A trapped lion had broken loose; natives were afraid to track it clown. Missionary Taylor got a rifle, advanced upon the lion, fired thrice, missed thrice. The gun jammed. The natives fled. When they returned the lion had eaten Missionary Taylor's hands and one foot, clawed his body bloody. Missionary Taylor died...
...information which indicate how families grouped into tribes, tribes into peoples; how man progressed with his domestic utensils, from woven baskets to turned pots, from animal skins to woven clothes; how simple natural science became supernatural religion; how man's learning to cultivate corn required his settling clown on his tilled fields, how the settlements became teeming cities...
...British seemingly feared that, in expressing sympathy for Germany and hope that the U. S. will agree to scale clown Reparations, they had played a trifle too far into Dr. Brüning's hands. Emotional, sympathetic Host MacDonald had to ask his guest please not to give an interview when he got back to his London hotel. Dr. Brüning promised, kept his promise, gave a subdued interview later "on German soil" at the German Embassy. In a joint MacDonald-Brüning communique the statesmen promised each other respecting Reparations "close collaboration with other governments concerned...