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Voluble Howard Chandler Christy was born 62 years ago in Morgan County, Ohio, where as a cow-milking moppet he was known as "Smiley." In 1889 he went to New York with $200 in savings, entered the Art Students' League, quickly got himself into the class of the late William Merritt Chase. Chase painted in the bravura style with which Italy's Boldini, and Sweden's Zorn were able to produce first-rate works of art. For nearly 50 years Howard Chandler Christy has used the same flashy style but without the same results...
...Would it be a Federal crime," asked one, "to steal a cow from a licensed stockyard...
...Cardenas had almost displaced the man who elected him. Boss Plutarco Calles, in the hearts of the Mexican peons by last month. He had given them some land and some justice, had made a personal tour of the back country, patting babies and cattle, drinking many a glass of cow's milk and goat's milk. But the one thing a Mexican President needs to rule his fermenting country is abounding, virile health. Last week, surrounded by enemies, President Cardenas to his disgust felt sick as a dog. Newshawks were told he had Malta fever, so named because...
...Dear Joe: Someone stole the door off your house. The cow has been poisoned and the plaster in two rooms upstairs has fallen down. A man came and said you promised him he could have 12 quarts of peaches. I gave them to him. Did you promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell...
...They have had a guiding hand in the drafting of nearly all legialation expert the NRA, he days. To them the constitution is just a foil for clever fencing- an antediluvian joke to be respected in public like a Sacred Cow and regarded in private somewhat as Gertrude Stein probably regards the poet Tennyson, or any other Victorian...