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...hours, no sign from the conclave. Then, at noon, the first sfumata-a curl of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney -was seen. By the black smoke the watchers knew that no Pope had been elected during the two morning ballots...
DAYS OF OUR YEARS-Pierre van Paassen-Hillman-Curl...
...when player pianos were banging out Over There in every city block, a chuckly little old gentleman with muttonchop whiskers and a kewpie curl atop his shining baldspot, turned his last handspring in the pages of Mr. Munsey's New York Press. A war-minded public scarcely noticed the passing of Foxy Grandpa, one of the great comic strip characters of an age that rejoiced also over the antics of Happy Hooligan, Buster Brown, Little Nemo...
...Santa Cruz, Calif, hills, George Spray called a convention of nudists at his Elysium Foundation. Three hundred and ninety appeared. Rival Nudist James F. Curl, who had called his convention for two weeks later, belittled Nudist Spray's convention, saying that some of the delegates had been seen wearing pants. Sneered he, "A nudist wearing pants is no nudist at all. He should be shaken from orthodox ranks...
Scornfully replied Nudist Spray, ''They're just sore because our meeting precedes theirs by two weeks. I didn't invite Curl here anyway. I am going to organize the Western Nudists' Alliance. We'll have more people here than Curl will have at six of his conventions...