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...bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...
...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...
...Belmar, N. J., one Ralph Berardi clanged his bell and cried his cry in front of the house of a Mrs. Minnie Levine. Out came Mrs. Levine with a pair of scissors. Mr. Berardi ground them for her on his scissors-grinder as expertly as he could. Mrs. Levine eyed the result, her lips in a purse of doubt. Suddenly she seized Mr. Berardi by his baggy trousers. Snip! Before you could say "Spaghetti" she had sliced a gaping moon out of one trouser, right at the knee. Ventilated, humilitated Mr. Berardi rushed to court...
Potter entered his first major tournament last week, the Long Island Open. Spectators noted the colossal pair of pale grey plus fours in which his nether portions were encased. When the first 18 was over, Potter had scored 67, five under par, record breaking for the difficult No. 4 course at Salisbury Country Club. He drove a 310-yard green...
Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...