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...ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged 25?? admission to see it. From Wall Street somebody telephoned in to offer $3,000 for the picture to present to the Library of Congress. A man named Goldberg would pay $5,000 for it to exhibit throughout the country. Unable to authenticate either offer, Mr. Birch-Field refused both in the name...
Last week John Smiukse went up to Tarrytown and paid his 25?? to see the Nightmare of 1934. He entered the room behind a giggling crowd of suburban housewives and stood for a minute looking at the picture. Suddenly he pulled a bottle of paint-remover from his pocket, splashed it over the canvas, yanked the caricature from the wall, touched a match to it. The flames flickered out quickly, but the picture was ruined. Housewives fled screaming. John Smiukse was instantly arrested. While Mr. Birch-Field and Jere Miah II conferred whether to make the charge arson or malicious...
...radical, believed in Democracy, was abjured by Communists; that he was not to be confused with Sinclair Lewis; that upon election he would instantly pardon Tom Mooney. Lean, white-haired, hollow-eyed, he had no barkers to drum up audiences for him. Instead he charged admission fees, usually 25??, for his meetings, drew greater crowds than any other candidate...
...fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term to S. H. Kress & Co. who planned to build a 5¢-10¢-and-25?? store...
...Seattle Lloyd Ritzman, 17, raised the price of his fishing worms to 25?? per 100, explained: "I make them self-cleaning by packing them in moss for a couple of days before they are sold. This wipes off the slime as the worm crawls, and makes it possible for the fisherman to grasp it firmly...