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...York City stood to lose another member of its investigation-harried judiciary last week. She was Magistrate Jean Hortense Norris, 54, the city's first female judge, a strongminded lady who was accused of combining too much of the Wife of Bath's recklessness with Portia's astuteness. A report recommending her removal from office was filed by Referee Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the lower courts of Manhattan and The Bronx for the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Referee Seabury's four specific charges against Magistrate Norris, brought out in her hearing before...
...from Berlin and "streamlined" by a bath in wart-remover, the frog Wilhelm was a betting favorite. But while the crowd shrieked, jostled, fired revolvers, he covered only 4 ft. 8 in. in his three jumps. A pampered creature called Zenobia, imported from Kinston, N. C. in a tub of native water, raised cheers by doing 8 ft. 6 in. Then Angels Camp went wild as the bright green veteran Budweiser thrust thrice with his long green legs, shot down the course 11 ft. 5 in., was declared winner...
...that the operation would be completed within the week. The lilies and a dozen fish have been ordered through the University Maintenance Department from a New England conservatory, while an anonymous donor has given four additional goldfish. The latter are peculiar in that they must be given a private bath every fortnight...
First to go was the new men's bath, a 600-ft. barge whose bottom is pierced with innumerable holes, where Heidelberg men perform their ablutions. With a loud rending of the steel bands that held it to the wharf it broke loose, swung out into the racing yellow Neckar, crashed down on the solid Friedrich Bridge, split into a thousand fragments...
...above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...