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...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
...entire New Testament, just revised; and the Herald (now Hearst's Herald Examiner) was established. Also in 1881, in the overgrown pueblo village of Los Angeles, was born the Los Angeles Times, which shortly was acquired by General Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, a goateed, long-mustached turkey-cock who loved a fight and was sometimes compared to Editors Jones of the New York Times and Greeley of the Tribune. With true Southern Californian fervor the Los Angeles Times this week was celebrating the soth anniversary of that birth...
...Times Square, like the well-remembered Cock Robin and The Last Warning, is a backstage murder play. A drama is being rehearsed, during which a man is shot as he vanishes through a trap door. He emerges in the audience unhurt. Then another man, coming through the audience, is fired on. It turns out that he is not killed either. Finally someone really is shot, but by this time the whole business has become too silly for you to care much one way or another...
...cloak model and sung in a cabaret. She and Rosa were engaged for their sister act when they had no money left, no clothes except their street suits. When they arrived at the theatre for their first turn, the manager protested about their clothes. They told a cock-&-bull story about a dressmaker who had disappointed them so the manager let them go on in their shirtwaists and striped skirts, heard them bring down the house with O Sole...
...crew quickly recovered from first fright, looked out the portholes. They saw "steel-like fangs of ice moving stealthily through the water, which changes in color . . . throughout the entire range of blues." They saw prawn-like and cock-roach-shaped creatures, sea fleas, medusa jelly fish. Through compression chambers they took samples of water and bottom sludge...