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...twice demonstrated last week; once at This Man's Town (see above), again at Penny Arcade. The setting of the latter is indicated by its title- a gaudy pavilion with a waxen Hindu dummy in a glass case dispensing prophecies on pasteboard, and a lot of cumbersome crank machines showing moving pictures of stout ladies in their lingerie. On one side are hot dog and penny-pitch booths, on the other is a cheap photographer's studio. High above loom the mazy timbers of a scenic railway...
Just then a truck loaded with bricks blows its horn imperiously for him to get out of the way. He stops his inspection and hurries as fast as his sixty odd years will permit to crank his ancient Ford. More rivets are driven home, the truck starts back for another load of bricks and the famous professor scurries back to his class to lecture on the Platonic theory of education...
...Forbes, on whose desk the letter was laid by a secretary when it was received addressed to "Fogg Museum, Harvard College," fails to take its contents seriously and prefers to ascribe it to "some crank or mentally unbalance person." It was nevertheless, turned over to Charles Apted, chief of the Harvard Yard police, in case, said Mr. Fobes, "its recipient might incite other persons of unsound mind to annoy the Fogg officials of cause damage to University property...
With the Marine Band dinning in his ears, Citizen Hunefeld took note of the bodyguardsmen (secret service) standing about. They could not be too careful guarding the President's life. Some crank might get in. McKinley had been shot that way by a man with a revolver under a handkerchief. President Harding had been asked to wear a bullet-proof vest at his first reception in 1922 but refused. An experienced receptionist, Citizen Hunefeld knew he could not put his hands in his pockets; he had seen women warned to take their hands out from under their furs...
...delicate health. Milk he drinks in quantities and every hostess who entertains him knows enough to provide it for him. 2) Sir Esme has been thoroughly annoyed at news photographs, widely circulated, of liquor trucks unloading at his embassy, followed by abusive letters from many a Dry crank. 3) The British Embassy is reported sufficiently stocked with liquor to carry over until next February when Sir Esme retires...