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Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim...
The wind rose to a 45 mile-an-hour gale. About midnight the envelope of one Navy blimp began to part. Hastily the rip cord was pulled and a bagful of helium was given to the hungry wind, which dragged the sagging ship 100 yds. and cast the basket damaged...
Critics usually fall foul of the Rhodes Scholars for their failure to approximate the vision of Rhodes Scholars which exists in the minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the...
great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street...
The Adorable Liar. A delicate mechanism is the young girl of romantic hallucinations. Only a kindly sheriff and a sensitive audience can really understand. When she stirs a mob to a manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it...