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...giving you guys a break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers to massacre you. I'll put you to hell out myself. . . . I'll knock the teeth out of anybody who hangs around here...
...cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine...
Suddenly tear gas bombs began to pop on the street. The soldiers put on their masks, pushed slowly on while the heavy grey fumes cut great gaps in the retreating throng of veterans. Citizen spectators tangled with the soldiers, were ordered to "get the hell out of the way." The Government buildings were methodically gassed. A huge Negro sat in a crotch of a tree, waving a U. S. flag and sonorously chanting: "God that gave us this h'yar country...
...Paul Gustave Dore's monumental illustrations of the Bible and of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri gave a large part of the last generation a thoroughgoing picture of Heaven and Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work...
Arriving in Manhattan in 1906, said Claimant Morris, he accidentally encountered "Papa" who took him to the family mansion on Fifth Avenue. He heard Sis ter Ella tell "Papa": "Get out and take your brat with you." Said the "brat" (age 26): "To hell with you; you're all a pack of nuts," and went away. Only once again did he see "Papa" in years of wandering about the U. S., hopping freights, working as an itinerant laborer. He gave "Papa" scarcely another thought until about a week after Sister Ella's death, which he chanced to read about...