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Wraith of a dreadful era, Gaston Bullock Means got out of prison last week. Citizens had to tax memory heavily to recall precisely which one he was of the many crooks in the Harding administration.
The business of Tibet has fallen into ruin. A pitiful hut is described, in official documents as "a snowy palace." . . . In the big villages there is not a single store. . . . "In twilight people come to you begging you to sell them something but they do not dare to trade openly...
This precipitated a scramble so dreadful that it is impossible properly to describe it. Generous Mr. Farley had distributed 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers.
Last week, in Manhattan, John S. Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, saw a picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts...
The madman was Charles Sims, R. A., who once painted King George with spindle legs, who became a lunatic, who committed suicide by jumping in the Tweed river, who left a note asking the Academy to show the last half dozen canvases he had covered (TIME, April 30). Reluctant, the...