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...George Bernard Shaw and God were too much for Blanco and Feemy. Between the two of them they turned these hardened sinners into sentimental softies. What God couldn't supply George came through with. God furnished a rainbow and a baby with the croup, and George brought forth situations and ejaculations equal to the reformation of the most abandoned reprobates; between them they turned the trick. Blanco and Feemy lost that rotten feeling, and as the curtain fell their wings began to sprout. God was probably pleased; Shaw certainly was; and the audiences who witness the Stagers' production...
Persons who have read the Hoover biography by his college-mate, Will Irwin*,know that Mr. Hoover was subject to croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...
Albinos, Charles Dickens, Croup...
Just as the croup or hooping-cough...