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...After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned by a rumrunner, a bootlegger, a racketeer and a speakeasy proprietor. "I was almost sorry to see him go," said Kirby. "I was almost getting fond...
...reason Berlin can't sleep much at night may be that, as one of Manhattan's most chronic stayer-uppers (mostly with the bachelor Hoffman, who supplies him with the gossip of which he is so fond), he seldom uses nights for going to bed. This is only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel...
Petersen & Co. now have four numbers, including one about a motorized cowboy ("Instead of prodding with his spurs, he mashes on the gas"). But Lyricist Medley is still especially fond of Saturday Night Drag because it has a moral: "This hot-rodder gets caught, catch it? So maybe kids listenin' to the record don't go out and race except at a track. Catch...
...bewitched by the Devil. This particular Devil is a jovial old party who wears a rumpled dinner jacket over his generous paunch, and sports no horns or tail. His glance, though sometimes leering, is never demoniac, and he talks about Heaven and Hell with a twinkle, like a fat, fond uncle...
From the pygmy point of view, the trip has been more or less of a failure. They are content enough to eat Cape Town's plentiful food, but aside from the salt, they are not very fond of a civilized diet. They like their own everyday dishes, berries, roots and snake meat, better. As for all the other benefits of civilization, only the sewage system impresses them. Their loose loincloths, they say, are far superior to tight-fitting civilized clothing, and their own home brew, made from melons, has more kick than the white man's firewater...