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...Washington, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent...
...Sticking pins into a map of China became last week a more exciting game than many another. A big black-headed pin was appropriate to pierce the spot where a high Chinese official had his nose cut off and his eyes gouged out. Only a shining white-headed pin would do to show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most...
...theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel in an Ohio village...
Bringing Up Father. A kick in the pants is the humor of this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
Backstage, an official rushed by with the news that Commander Byrd had arrived and there was no committee on hand to meet him Consequently the reporter stepped into the breach, as a committee of one, and upon reaching Commander Byrd was confronted with the request for a pin. Confusion reigned until Abraham Lincoln, soon to appear with George Washington in a benefit tableau, extracted a pin from his costume and satisfied the need...