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...window to Joan of Arc in the Ethical Church of London contains a three-quarter length portrait of George B. Shaw and the late Anatole France. Questioned as to why he was in the picture, the author of the play Saint Joan replied with characteristic pretentious affectation: "You had better go and ask Anatole France...
...banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm...
...Mexico City, one Islas Escandon, dentist, piled 400,000 human teeth in his window, advertised in glaring posters the ease with which he extracted molars, eyeteeth. A rabble, styled by approving officials as "a group of students," questioned patients of Islas Escandon, then advanced upon the quarters of this quack, drove him forth, shoveled his 400,000 teeth upon an ash-heap...
...with the disunited States of Europe. With the rise of the thermometer, vitality sank and with the increase of humidity, ambition faltered. An unnamed U. S. newspaper correspondent with more imagination than energy was locomoted about Europe. From the shade of his conveyance (it might have been from the window of his hotel or, again, a hyper-metropical vision from the U. S.), he lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything" in Europe: "Artificial sunlight aids the health of London's Zoo monkeys. Fatal accidents from unexploded shells still continue...
...indeed," said one of these will o' the wisps, "I never stay for Class Day. The old grads would be the death of me. Please close the window...