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...this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair and her reticule swinging free, silencing the signal for Basil Underwood's death...
...ball and a11-lb. bag of steel shot had been dropped on it from six feet, after a pane of it had been placed on an ice cake and molten lead poured on the top surface, after a torsion machine had warped a sheet of it like so much cardboard...
...desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There...
...front of the jury box, waving a pencil as if it were a crucifix. One by one three flashing-eyed Armenian women attempted to tackle him in football style. Because the jury could not remember the defendants' names (Leylegian, Sarkisian, Yarganian, Mozian, Tchalitkian, Sarafian, Mirijanian, Zodigian, Andreassian) a cardboard sign behind them listed each by number...
...keep cool during their sweating, sweltering sessions each arriving delegate was handed a cardboard fan. On its face he found a gaudy chromo entitled "No. 528 Nature." On its back appeared the square, smiling countenance of Henry Lester Smith. 58, Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University (Bloomington, Ind.). At the week's end grateful delegates elected Dean Smith their president for next year...