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...pocketing from turnstile boxes 500,000 nickels ($25,000) in four years. Mr. Rigney was one of 36 subway employes accused of niching 30,000,000 nickels ($1,500,000). 3) City budgetmen tried to find out why the Transportation Board had awarded an $888,000 signal-system contract to the higher of two bidders...
Helen Hayes went on the stage at five. From child parts to Little Lord Fauntleroy to Pollyanna to the flapper in Clarence, on to the big roles of her mature years, Helen moved steadily forward-and her mother with her. Whenever Helen signed a contract, her mother leaned over her shoulder. Whenever Helen was on stage, her mother stood in the wings. Mother was even privy to the "snares" Helen laid to catch her husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur...
Matrimony is made easy for Germany's fighting men by a recent decree. Every man in active service, irrespective of rank, may contract marriage without appearing before a registrar. The matrimonial candidate is required to submit a statement to any officer of the rank of major or higher, that he intends to marry a certain girl. If the bride-to-be appears within two months before the registrar of her home town and consents to the marriage, the tie becomes binding from that moment. If the soldier should die before the girl grants her consent to the wedding, the marriage...
...greatest creation of my long career, The equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even...
...gags (Sample: "I don't mind suffering, it's just the pain I can't stand"). He is also credited with solving a murder which is really solved by Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, who is said to be somewhat jealous of Charlie, has a clause in his contract stating that Charlie McCarthy must never be billed above Edgar Bergen...