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When Sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies was commissioned (in the will of Mrs. Angelina Crane) to fashion a statue of Civic Virtue for Manhattan's City Hall Park, he modeled an upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident...
...most ones of our officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...
Mischief In Grantwood, N. J., Mrs. Carlo Ramondo went to court to get her son Carlo Ramondo Jr., eleven, who had been arrested while up to some mischief. On her return with her mischievous son, Mrs. Ramondo encountered an ambulance carrying her daughter Angelina Ramondo. seven, who had just been shot by her brother Joseph Ramondo...
...John Kristopek, middleaged, $25-a-week worker in a raybestos factory at Passaic, N. J., who had been buying tickets in lotteries, raffles, baseball pools all his life, and Angelina and Sophie Jobe, waitresses in the Hollywood Coffee Shop on Second Avenue, Manhattan: $23,130 and $12,000 respectively in the Grand National sweepstakes...
...Mount Morris, N. Y., a joker put a tack on the chair of Angelina Ceronit, who sat on the tack, squeaked, contracted blood poisoning, died...