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...excitable Manhattan and Paris night club entertainer, went to Manhattan's Independent Artists exhibit (TIME, March 10) to see her portrait by Alfred H. Maurer. Indignant at the impressionistic rendition of her charms, she seized a knife from a bystander, slashed at the picture, screaming: "I'll show that bum. . . . That guy couldn't even paint a barn!" Said offended Artist Maurer: "I didn't let her see it. I told her I would surprise her with it. It seems that I did. What did a night club singer expect, a madonna?" Replied Miss Day: "I never looked that dopey...
...send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes any of his accusations to me in person I'll hit him. Scott is the yellowest bum I ever saw. For 10? I'd take him into any cellar and give him a licking myself...
...penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting...
...less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard Hanna, well-to-do wholesale grocer and ship owner, was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1837. All his life Ohio was his empire. Until the Presidential campaign of 1896, when Bryan, the silver-tongued prophet of Free...
...away from Columbus, Ohio, hovered about racetracks, sold papers, learned how to bum. Then he was converted, went to a seminary in Northfield, Mass. Prepared for the ministry, he was on his way to Philadelphia when he saw the Great Herrmann, master magician, and followed him to Syracuse. He joined a roadshow, a circus, organized a show of his own, toured the country, toured the world, joined Kellar as junior partner, succeeded him. Now he is 60, successful, reminiscent...