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...idea that labor was king and a bricklayer the aristocrat of labor. He bought a house, a car, a radio (all on in-stallments), joined the Elks; his wife began to play bridge and put on other airs. Because he felt so prosperous Matt thought he would knock off work awhile, take his family on a tour around the country. It was an entertaining trip. "Another thing we done in Washington is to go into the Senate and look in on those damn fools with goatees and funny coats arguing about this and that just like they was arguing about...
...down to the lake shore at 8:30 a. m. with his slender, blonde model. She would strip off her clothes, stand ankle deep in the icy water in a pose that the whole world knows. A slow meticulous worker, Artist Chabas would paint for only 30 minutes, then knock off until the next good morning. When the canvas was finished by the end of the second summer, he called it Matinee de Septembre and sent it to the Salon of 1912 where it won a medal of honor and very little public attention. Hunting for a purchaser, Artist Chabas...
...found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene...
Egged on by the Labor Board, which in turn was egged on by the A. F. of L., Department of Justice prosecutors went to U. S. District Judge John Percy Nields at Wilmington, charged that Weirton was outside the law, asked for an injunction which would knock out the company union. When the case began as a paper fight, Judge Nields threw 1,060 affidavits out of court with orders that the deponents be brought before him so he could gauge their credibility on the witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months...
...wife, Claude, was kept too busy bearing him seven children to give him any cause for jealousy. But the beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...