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Said Sailor Michael Frane: "Throughout the whole period I did not leave the single room in which we were kept, together with robbers, bootleggers and the scum of the country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners...
...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...
Atop the bubbling scum of Chinese civil war, events crystallized and clarified remarkably last week, standing forth sharp and definite: C The U. S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy stood together on their Chinese policy for the first time in many months and all transmitted to the Chinese Nationalist Government at Hankow identical demands for reparations in connection with the incident at Nanking (TIME, April 4), when Chinese killed several Occidentals but were quelled by a U. S. British bombardment...
...Brooklyn last week, at midnight, Li Poy, 45, dishwasher, Hip Sing, was stooping over his sink in King's Tea Garden, finishing cleaning the scum from around the rim of the water. Occasionally from the dining-room came the sparkle of white men's women, such as many a wealthy tong leader keeps in his saffron incensed chambers. In and out pattered the waiters. Then a strange Chinaman swung through the door. He fired two shots into Li Poy's bent back. Poy pitched forward and his face sank like a yellow teacup into the brown dishwater...
...bird cage containing two housebroken rats. He calls them "Dill" and "Fred," in honor of Dr. Robertson and Fred Lundin. "What the hell do I care for Lundin? He's a dirty rat!" cried Candidate Thompson. "He is grooming this other rat, Robertson. He's the scum of the earth." It will be remembered that "Rat" Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years ago, and that Mr. Thompson made "Rat" Robertson his Commissioner of Health. Anything is possible in Chicago politics. Mr. Thompson is even asking for votes on the grounds that he will...