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...ORRIN RILEY Nixon...
Life with Father. In Cincinnati, J. Riley lost his suit for divorce after wife Lillie Riley testified that he had fathered twelve children by her, five (including twins) by four other women, added caustically: "When he tried to bring home the twins, Judge, I refused...
...Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, John Barrymore, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas." Concluded Sinclair: "After wasting a year trying to please publishers, I am making this appeal to the conscience of my country. [Who] will make...
...just by answering the doorbell. The play is also rather amusingly penetrated with the idea that to all married men and single women the bachelor state-quite irrespective of a bachelor's habits-is thoroughly shocking. On the pleasant side, too, are more attractive girls-Kim Hunter, Janet Riley, Julia Meade and Parker McCormick-than turn up in many a musical...
Steerage Class. In Milwaukee, after Mrs. Fannie Riley found him sleeping in a trunk in her attic and called police, Army Sergeant John J. Yess, unable to account for either the position or the imposition, complained: "This ship has the smallest berth I ever slept...