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...Manhattan, raised for Heinrich Heine, poet. The other is on the city hall square of Paterson, N. J., and honors Nathan Barnert, twice mayor of Paterson. Mr. Barnert began business in Paterson in 1855, four years after it was incorporated as a city.† He prospered; became owner of silk mills; gave away his money-for a hospital, a nurses' home, a home for the aged, a perpetual fund to provide dowries for poor girls. Last week he was still living, 89 years old and a very sick man, whom his daughter was assiduously tending...
...letter of Thomas Jefferson, in which he related that the reason the Declaration of Independence was accepted was not because the committee liked it all so well, but because the hall where they were assembled was opposite a stable, and the delegates, being elegant gentlemen attired in long silk stockings just like those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have to say is 'God bless the gadflies.'?Mrs. Carrie...
...demonstrated" by invading a synagog, while the congregation was at prayer and thrashing 30 Jews & Jewesses. When at Bucharest the arrested students were searched, their pockets were found crammed with loot, and around the waists of many young women students were discovered up to half a dozen pairs of silk stockings which they had removed from kicking victims...
...hours and then it gets worse. Strange manifestations pile up. Lights flicker, screams resound, bodies pop up everywhere, Hymns are sung off stage, the bodies that have popped up disappear, and then what do you suppose? It all turns out to be a mean fraud staged by the wicked silk smugglers to scare people away from the scene of their activities. Mercy, we were nonplussed...
...been unhappy since Hamlet. Or so you feel at this playful Danish version of the proposition that life is illogical. The plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher, a quizzical associate of long standing. He handles play and players...