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...round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
...however, should be careful not to carry the reform too far. When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims for his purifying sword? With nothing left to attack, he would be a pitiable object. Perhaps he would ascend to Heaven in a chariot of fire...
...Biggest J. B.s" [TIME, Feb. 1]. Although this whole procedure is absolutely idiotic, may I remark that as "John" is the commonest American name there are undoubtedly more famous Americans named "John" than anything else. No doubt "Big Johns" also head the lists of bootleggers, stamp lickers, hash eaters, sword swallowers, garbage men and street sheiks. If your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they can go on adding to until they are tired of such a ninnyhammer's trick. My list: John Thomas Scopes John...
...Newark, N. J., the orchestra played Carmen. A bull, goaded by the lances of the picador, careened madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...
Married. Henry ("Spider Boy") Bulson, to Margaret ("Princess Alahula Harvy") Berry; on the stage of the Harlem Museum, New York. An 8-ft. 4 in. best man, a 36-in. flower girl, a 783-lb. bridesmaid attended the couple. Bearded ladies, tattooed men, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters threw good luck coins as the "Spider Boy" proceeded down the aisle on his hands...