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...always admired those painters who scale the precipitous Lowell House tower. But they don't really mind the job. It's romantic. Or at least there must be some attraction in the work because we caught one cheerful fellow, dangling from a rope some hundred feet above sea level, whistling away gaily. What was he whistling? You've guessed it. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took seven internes to hold her while they got the tube into her nostril. Left alone for a moment, the supposedly famished woman slid down a rope of sheets out the windows and went back to jail. Doctors said her physical condition was better than ever. The Hanau Case, loaded with political dynamite, was elaborately muffled by the courts. It got two editors, one duke and two counts into jail and poufed out with a conviction...
...Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly the New York Times summed up the symposium: "The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimaginatively on the ground. ... It is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire-rope, our quick-drying lacquers...
...from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" de Falla "Cricus Day," Fantasy (Eight Pictures from Memory) Op. 8 Deems Taylor I. Street Parade II. The Big Top III. Bareback Riders IV. a. The Lion Cage b. The Dog and Monkey Circus c. The Waltzing Elephant V. Tight-Rope Walker VI. Jugglers VII. Clowns (First Performance in Boston) *Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in G minor Saint-Saens Soloist: Elizabeth Trvers Behnke *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *To a Water Lily MacDowell Trepak Russian Dance Ballerian...
...dealing with the mystery of the death of King Albert. . . . 'Albert did not die as the result of an 'alpine accident,' believe me, I know the facts. ... The story of Albert's death was issued in Belgium before he was dead. A man with a rope around his waist does not go climbing by himself. ... In other words he was tapped on the back of the head. . . . The facts are that King Albert was opposed to war. He would not play any part in the deviltry of France in conspiring for war against defenseless Germany...