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...occasion for scurrilous comments in the Manhattan press. Slyly wrote the correspondent of the tabloid Daily News: "When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous...
...play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne De Casalis, in pajamas from which the producer had ordered the sleeves and lining stripped. Said Herbert Griffith in the Evening Standard: "I thought up to last night that I was unshockable but found I wasn...
...Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...
...money! We starve!' "They are ragged and I am sorry. I say to priest: " 'Mr. Priest, you know mooch about these people. I give you 5,000 francs and you give it to children.' "Then, after, I read I have give money to White Guard. It wasn't so. "I am Russian, but people say: 'Why don't you naturalize out?' Why, because I am Russian. It is my country. We have many troubles, but it is my country. If they put me out, what will I do? I cannot imagine myself...
...around or leave that corner!" they said. . . Sister Eva never came. . . . Next morning a nun found a figure standing in the corner of the sewing room, stifling sobs. "It was awful dark and lonesome," said obedient Helen Wilkus. "Then the light came and I heard the sparrows and I wasn't so scared. I sat down then, but I stood up again when I was rested...