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...Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty by God and country he gets this...
...Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France, and in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Francisco guests convened to witness the marriage of Martha Catching and Dr. Robert Max Herbst. After a long delay it was announced that the wedding was postponed, because Fred Herbst. best man and brother of the groom, and Ann Catching, maid of honor and sister of the bride, had eloped...
...very first season she blacklisted herself by letting an ineligible bachelor kiss her in a conservatory till all hours. Tongues wagged her market-value down & down. The bloom off, nobody came near but drones. Monica peered, preened and pined to no avail. Her father disappointedly died, her old-maid friends grew more virginal every year, her mother kept a stiff lip stiffer. Things looked pretty dismal for Monica when the biggest drone of all finally settled on her. And the dreadful point of the story is that by that time Monica was really glad to have...
...castle on the wedding day of Head Butler Paul Lukas and the Baroness' personal maid Virginia Bruce, comes John Gilbert, highly recommended by the apprehensive countess whose chauffeur he has been. He watches the butler take his bride to his room. The upstairs buzzer sounds. Says the butler: "Don't worry, my darling Anna. My father was a butler, and he had nine children." As he leaves John Gilbert quickly and smoothly appears. He tells a sentimental story of his? mother's wedding night. Presently he is also fast friends with the butler and with the cook to whom...