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WHAT PRICE GLORY??The season's champion in which war is described in terms of mud, wine and oaths instead of the customary medals, music and marriage...
...Coop, the print goes under the number E 156. The original painting, which is by Manet, now hangs in the Luxembourg, and is entitled "Olympia." The subject is a nude, couchant, and differs from the Lampoon representation in that it is minus the wine-glass and the horrid leer with which the humorous artist embellished...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Jim Fisk was a tin peddler from Pownal, Vt. Not he, but Daniel Drew, sold watered stock at the Bull's Head Tavern. Selling watered live stock by weight was an old trick when Mesopotamian cowboys used to trade, in the wine-rooms, at Ur of the Chaldees. It is much if you do not mix up Daniel Drew* with John Drew.† Jim Fisk&** with John Fiske.†† NEWELL MARTIN...
...once obvious to the Boston Police Force that the law prohibiting improper representation of the National Flag had been violated. They also found, on an inner page, a reproduction of a Manet nude, brazenly doctored to show a winking eye and a tipping wine glass. The title of this picture was given as The Goddess of Liberty; the artist, "Mr. Hotmama"; the caption, "If this be treason, make the most of it." The Boston Police Force did make the most of it. For the first time in The Lampoon's 40 years, it was ordered off the Boston newsstands...
...time the analysis showed that alcohol was the trouble. . . . had made it a habit to drink a pint of champagne a day. It was tonic, stimulating, just as cigars were tonic and stimulating. But, at 88, it interfered with health and efficiency. Reluctantly but decisively I cut out the wine. Now I take a glass when a cold threatens-and I'm extremely susceptible to colds-but, apart from that, I'm a total abstainer...