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...climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find a new job...
...Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage...
...job done, H. Hamilton Fyfe, 57, the man who has written everything from dramatic criticism for the London Times (1901) to Russian propaganda in Spain (1917) and British propaganda in Germany (1918) is off again. To newsgatherers he said last week: "I believe that in 20 years there will be only two parties in England, one consisting of Laborites and Liberals and the other of Communists...
...shirt stud has been kept by order of Alexandra exactly as Edward VII left it. Last week, Queen Mary, in the absence of George V who was hunting in Scotland, ordered and superintended a thorough cleaning preparatory to complete redecoration of this so-called "secret bed chamber." One good job done, Queen Mary passed to another locked bedroom door. Impassive but expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince...
...police asked Emanuel Silberstein his occupation. "Selling wine to Negroes," he answered, smiling. He told them he was glad he had "done the job well." They found cyanide of potassium in his pocket and again he said he was glad that he had killed "the old man" instead of himself...