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...grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband. Tabor married her, 30 years his junior, as soon...
...Governor Herbert Henry Lehman invited the newsmen's wives to a circus party at the Executive Mansion. The guests came in girls' dresses, hair ribbons. Pretty Mrs. Lehman twisted her hair in two braids, wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits...
...spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head to their New Justice...
...Hitler rightly feels that he has hit on a wholly original and potent weapon for subjugating unemployment. But Der führer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap car BECAUSE WE MUST! I rejoice that one of our leading constructors has devised a car which will cost no more than a medium-priced motorcycle. Its consumption of fuel, Meine...