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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tampering hearings, Father Burns had bellowed about "our" operations. "We were clearly within our rights . . ." he had said. And again, "I assure you the Burns agency is not seeking to help any guilty man out of trouble. My policy always has been to put the cards on the table . . . etc. etc." Now, with a jail sentence looming, Father Burns implied that such talk had been but the bellicose outburst of a parent trying to protect...
...painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs again...
Married. Miss Rosemary Ames, daughter of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (Booth Fisheries, American Steel Foundries, Chicago Journal of Commerce, etc., etc.), of Chicago; to Ogden Ketting, subaltern of Public Utility Magnate Samuel Insull, in Chicago. Samuel Insull Jr. functioned as best...
...invented forty years ago by a French nobleman, Count de Chardonnet. Practically any cellulose substance can be transformed into it,-cotton linters (tiny shreds of cotton fibre formerly wasted), wood pulp, corn stalks, straw, etc...
...publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, etc., etc.) uses pretty-girl covers for his magazines. Such covers are usually inspired by pretty models. Such a model is Miss Peggy Burns of Philadelphia, Pa., who last week on her 21st birthday inherited $500,000 from her grandfather. Said she : "I am not going to quit work. I like my work." One of her first acts after receiving the inheritance was to collect $100 from an artist for posing for the cover of the current Ladies' Home Journal...