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...vanished. At Martinsburg he joshed with citizens about some apples they had given him on an earlier excursion. At Garrett, Ind., next morning he marveled to see so many people up so early to greet him. As his train skirted Chicago his boosters turned out with placards: "Hoover or Hell...
...even the prospect of making 600,000 pesetas can quell the mortal dread of the sea which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last...
...claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus Christ, barkin' and bitin' at what He don't like," carried on, founded a home for widows and orphans of drunkards at Kansas City, became president...
Sins In Senatobia, Miss., when Rev. William McCarty, 96, preached an old-style funeral sermon on the sins of the deceased, who he predicted was on his way to Hell, Mrs. Levy Laird, a relative of the deceased, tore off most of Mr. McCarty's clothes, smashed his hat, scratched...
...their blunderhead awkwardness, Authors Dreiser and Anderson have won life memberships in the U. S. literary Senate. Jim Tully's persistent clamor in the lobby has not yet gained him admission. Crudely violent writer of crudely violent melodramatics. Author Tully has done better books than Laughter in Hell, but none more typical...