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...nonetheless Siki improved in health. It was found that after all his jugular vein had not been severed. His wife came to call on him and he demanded "clo's." She opined that he had best remain in the hospital for a while in pajamas. It appeared, after she had gone, that he did not acquiesce in her proposal. He fixed his eye on a press observer who was standing near by. Siki staggered weakly out of bed, seized the reporter's arm for support, marched out of the hospital, into the street. There he hailed a taxicab...
...Clo-Clo?Franz Lehar's success from Vienna will be naturalized and, a little later, his Paganini. Another Viennese importation will be the highly successful Mariza...
SCENE, Library. (Two old-clo' men speak to a dig at the table.) "I see you don't allow strangers in here; but we are not going to stay long. Are going right...
...itinerant pedlers and orange-men. It is not always a wise course, however, to feign absence; for the other day, on my paying no attention to his rap, a poco of archaeological tastes carried off my door-mat, with the intention, probably, of representing his firm in the old clo' department at the Centennial. But, as a general thing, if one wishes to avoid trying on the new varieties of "Patent Braces," and other articles of wearing apparel, he will best secure his object by studying the peculiarities of gait among pedlers. It is an easy matter to discover...
...Israel, daintily apparelled, and resplendent in jewelry, though neglectful or ignorant of the properties of soap and water in combination; he wanted to buy my old hat, - the which and three dollars would procure one of Solomons' glossiest castors. I enounced the usual formula for "ol'-clo'" men; hadn't any hat, coat, waistcoat, - anything suited to purposes of dicker. Had plenty of money, and when I did get low in funds would let him know. (I had shortly before assured a pedler of patent book-rests that I was completely "broke," and should n't have a remittance till...