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...Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...Tutoring school notes may help the undergraduates, but they make a lot of extra work for the Post Office," said Mr. Arthur Stevens of the Cambridge office to a CRIMSON reporter in a through-the-bars interview at the stamp window yesterday. "Over 20,000 postal cards were used during the mid-years," he continued, "for the purpose of advertising printed notes to Harvard students, and I don't know how many letters besides...
...American life was lost. J. J. Gray, Third Secretary of the U. S. Embassy, escaped death when his house collapsed by jumping from a window to a telephone pole. F. D. Leclere, another member of the Embassy staff, sprained his wrist by jumping from a window of the Imperial Hotel, 20 feet from the ground. Linden Wells of Los Angeles fractured his ankle in running out into the open. Most of the guests of the Imperial Hotel fled into the corridors at the first tremor, others rushed out into the streets with their clothes and dressed there. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt...
...cyclopean shirt, large enough to fit such a man as "Strangler Lewis," the wrestler, has been placed on exhibition in the display window of James W. Brine's athletic goods store at 1410 Massachusetts Avenue...
...sufficient repulsiveness to apply to nuisances and wrong-doors of every kind. If one is plagued by cigarette borrowers, one can wreak one's vengeance by calling them "ciggabars" or "gottabutts". Or if one's room mate insists on leaving the bath-room door open when the bed-room window is up, one might effectively insult him with the epithet "atmophile", or even in extreme cases "aerodome". The possibilities of this sort of thing are really unlimited. Mr. King little knows what potent forces he has unleashed...