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Easy Street.-This particular wife started dying at an early age because, after she told her grandfather that she had sat on his silk hat, he spanked her. One thing led to another and by the second year of her married life she was telling her husband she had been home all day when she really had been to Manhattan and that hats cost eight dollars when they really cost twenty. The husband was stupid but he finally caught up with the parade of prevarications. Thereupon he produced a pistol and waved it around for the better part...
DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...
Clad in immaculate evening clothes, shod in shining leather, gloved in white kid, and wearing a glossy silk hat, Comrade L. M. Karakhan, first Bolshevik Ambassador to China, entered a golden state coach drawn by six ebony horses. He was accompanied by General Huang Kai-wen, Master of Ceremonies, and escorted by 24 cavalry outriders, as he was whisked off to present his credentials to Marshal Tsao Kun, President of China...
...present incumbent of York is a mighty man in England, The Right Hon. and Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D. His silk stockings and silver slippers are known throughout the land. On industrial problems his words carry an almost pontifical authority. When he speaks, England harkens...
...frothing, broken accents he screamed at the referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th...