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...disgruntled over his pay, gets drunk, steals and drinks a house holder's Canadian ale, gnaws the householder's baked ham, belabors the householder's crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term...
...with the Rumanian royal crest and motto: Nihil Sine Deo;* chewed gum when assured by one of her ladies-in-waiting, Mme. Prezepie, that in the U. S. it is considered a preventative against seasickness-learned that half a million dollars' worth of antique furniture and bric-a-brac has been installed by the Hotel Ambassador in the suite which will allegedly be rented to Her Majesty in Manhattan for "a dollar a day"; received a 21-gun salute from the battery on Governor's Island as the Leviathan nosed up New York Harbor...
...Archduchess (Princess Stéphanie of Belgium) reacted to her husband's infatuation for the Baroness Vetschera with such violence that she hurled, from time to time, numerous articles of bric-à-brac at him-a fact incontestably proved. He, vexed, indulged himself the more riotously, inhaled ether and took morphia when he found that champagne had no more effect upon him. At last the Archduchess persuaded the Emperor Franz Josef to command her husband to break with the Baroness Vetschera. Moody, the Archduke departed for Mayerling, driven by his favorite coachman, one Bratfisch ("Fried Fish...
Richards told the editors that the mortgage was about to be foreclosed, that the printers had refused to work without pay and that the Lampoon was deeply in dept and unable to pay its bills. All the furniture and bric-a-brac belong either to former editors who have loaned them or to furniture firms. Two firms are involved, both of which intend to collect the furniture in forfeit of instalments never paid. In addition Lampy owes money to caterers, advertising agencies, engraving companies and printers and to the CRIMSON, and Lampy's sole employee, Bob Lampoon. Because of perennially...
...Submarine S-1 showed up to take part in the entertainment, and riflemen punctured and dispelled eggs, glass balls and other bric-a-brac cast into mid air. From this entertainment the President did not get home until...