Word: quiteness
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...reported that Richardson's wife died at an early age, and his six children died, and then it was drily added, "--like his novels should have died too." Richardson was supposed to be pathetic, but if Mr. Chandler couldn't be more pathetic than that guy, he'd quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly...
...were disrupted by various means. In Philadelphia 60 sit-downers in a clothing factory were ousted by two policemen. In Decatur, Ill., 47 sit-downers in a wallpaper mill walked out when a sheriff threatened to oust them by force. In Los Angeles eleven sit-downers in a bakery quit, after the proprietor, with police aid, had prevented food being delivered to them and confined them for 48 hours to a diet of their own pies (twelve kinds...
...with snowflakes bombarding his red whiskers. A year later Taft named him to the Supreme Court but the chill of that day seemed to stick in his bones. When 20 years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding and the curt Mr. Coolidge, had achieved...
...barrage of tear gas, the officers joined battle. Strikers turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle's men withdrew. The strikers declined medical aid, huddled in miserable triumph as cold winds whistled through the broken windows of the heatless, lightless factory. . . . Heat came up after two days, but negotiations...
Died. Harry E. Sheldon, 75, president of Allegheny Steel Co., which he and his father-in-law founded with $300,000 in 1900; after brief illness; in Pittsburgh. Orphaned at two, he quit school at nine, five years later became a $2-a-week machine shop apprentice...