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...Newport, Tenn. Evert Parker was not able to get enough money to buy shoes for his children. So with his wife and four youngsters he hitchhiked to Washington to be close to the source of supply. One afternoon last week Citizen Parker in overalls and his barefoot family settled down in the gallery of the House of Representatives. In that restful spot, Mrs. Parker unbuttoned her dress, presented her ample breast to her eight-month-old daughter, Hilda Jean...
...monarchs of Sweden were interested in the house because there, in 1373, died a great and pious Swedish woman, St. Bridget. In the chapel they viewed relics of the founder of the Brigittine Order. Then Queen Victoria spied a nun in a habit different from those of the barefoot Carmelites who occupied the house. She spoke to her, was surprised when the nun replied in Swedish. Further surprised were Gustaf and Victoria to learn that the nun, named Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad, was working to rebuild the Brigittine Order...
Kohana proved serious indeed. She went around barefoot in a succession of trailing costumes. Occasionally she had an angular outburst. More often she just undulated...
Nearly everyone who meets Franklin Roosevelt pays tribute to his personal charm and graciousness. When in Hawaii last summer he drove to the brink of Kilauea. Just as barefoot natives have done from time immemorial, he tossed into the inactive volcano a handful of red ohelo berries, traditional offering made to propitiate Pele, goddess of volcanoes. For six weeks Pele did nothing about it. Suddenly last week Kilauea belched forth a cloud of smoke, vomited millions of tons of molten lava. Natives concluded these were signs that Pele, too, had succumbed to Franklin Roosevelt's charm...
...Mooresville, Ind. farmhouse Dillinger's father took the news hard. Barefoot, clad in overalls, he stood in the doorway, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Is it really true?" he asked, bewildered, "Are you sure there is no mistake? I have prayed and prayed it would not happen. ... I can hardly talk. . . Johnny was not near as bad as he was painted...