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...YOUR TICKETS NOW, FOLKS, FOR THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH : THE CARPET CHEWER CAGED, OR GARGANTUA WAS JUST A GIGOLO...
...quote from a letter written by myself from Jorgeney, France in April 1918: "There is a former classmate of U.C., a Lieut. Searls here. He is a common earth son of a miner back in California. At college he was a regular fellow, good scrapper, tobacco chewer and brilliant student. Didn't take him long to make good in the mining game; one of the best geologists in the West, and when the War broke out he was earning big money. He enlisted as a private in one of the first engineering regiments going over. Was made a sergeant...
Bascom Timmons, Texas-born, became a reporter at 16, managing editor at 20. Lean, long (6 ft. 3½ in.), rangy, an inveterate cigar-chewer, he went to Washington as a friend of John Nance Garner, a correspondent for Jesse Jones's Houston Chronicle and nine other papers in the South...
...Lyon's worst fears seemed confirmed when Mr. Towne, a lusty cigar chewer who does much of his cogitating in a Turkish bath, picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...
...grandson, great-grandson of farmers (George III granted his great-grandfather the family's ancestral acres near Lynchburg), "Cotton Ed" Smith is South Carolina old-style-bulky, voluble, a tobacco-chewer, whittler, turkey hunter, storyteller. Candidate Johnston calls him "the sleeping Senator" but he can point to a long list of farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right...