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Having built up an apparently substantial case on the grounds that the enchanting evangelist did not hire a substitute to impersonate her at beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea and that consequently anyone who so accused her was attempting to blacken her reputation the defense now turns a complete somersault and tacitly admitting the possibility, even the probability, of such a move, argues that the action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs...
...bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side. These gentlemen do not write with the pen, however, as do their fellows in other illiterate countries, but with typewriters. Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with the Mexican eagle...
...Chicago Mrs. Fitzsimmons, a now destitute professional evangelist, sought unsuccessfully last week a permit to exhume her husband, to remove both the diamonds and their platinum settings...
...Greenwood, City building-inspector at Tucson, Ariz., sought Evangelist McPherson last week, and declared in the presence of Detective Chief Clive of Los Angeles that he recognized her as a woman whom he had seen on the street in Tucson during her "disappearance...
...Ormiston, adept operator of the Angelus Temple radio, unaccountably absent for some weeks, was likewise present at Los Angeles last week, but was not communicative as to where he had been. His wife recently sailed for Australia after filing divorce papers in which the name of Evangelist McPherson is bruited to be conspicuous...