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...famed organizer of strikes and unions, Irish-born, matriarch of the new and struggling United Mine Workers of America. Aged almost 60 at her first strike, she led violent mobs, faced bullets, bayonets, stumptalked despite police for many a year. Her tongue lashed the "tyrants" opposing union labor, her wit roused the drooping morale of many a waning revolt. The climax of her career as a labor agitator came at the mine "massacre" at Ludlow...
...publication for two months. Under its new owners it will become fatter, will be printed on heavier stock. Artist Alberto Vargas, who once painted the portraits of 25 glittering Ziegfeld showgirls in 25 days, will do the covers. Editor John C. Schemm hopes to have Club Fellow bursting with wit, humor, new gossip, sport. Douglas Brinkley. musicomedy skitster, cousin of Nell Brinkley who draws baby-faced beauties for Hearstpapers, will conduct a column of Broadway chitchat...
Died. Sir Thomas Robert Dewar, 66, Baron of Homestall, Lieutenant of the City of London, sportsman, famed dinner-wit, tycoon son of Whiskey Tycoon John Dewar; after a three-week illness; at Homestall, East Grinstead, Sussex...
...years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle Sam would swallow an unpleasant truth if sufficiently sugared. Will Rogers has followed somewhat haltingly in his train. Why not go back to the original...
...years entertained members and guests of the club with his annual readings, similar to those held at the Union each Christmas. The dinner, announced by W. G. Wendell '09, club secretary, will be attended by prominent writers of the day, and should prove 'a feast of wit and reason...