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Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...came to admire the work of Tintoretto that police were assigned to keep the crowds moving. Proud of the picture, the Silberman Galleries' doorman, a Eugene Herr, was conscience stricken to realize that the show window was not so clean as it ought to be. He got his bucket. Late comers expecting to see Susanna in the nude saw instead Mr. Herr in his overalls. They raged...
...know how to treat children; you just let them cry.' And do you know what they're liable to do if a child in the coop keeps on crying? . . . Why, some one is just as apt as not to walk up to the cage and throw a bucket of water on it. ... And do you know what will happen if things are too quiet in the cage? Why, someone will scare up a lost child. A mother will send her child for a glass of water. Two or three girls will follow...
...Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen O'Sullivan's smallclothes hidden in David O'Shea's hedge. Assistants pulled the other sock, the other gaiter...
...suits are based on substantially the same statements, viz: i) that Bishop Cannon was visiting his secretary Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum (his present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...