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Next there was the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. The Prefecture of Police covered it up with an awning and attached a large bronze fig leaf. Infuriated students rioted in the cemetery, led a parade down the boulevards to the Café Royale. The leader wore the fig leaf like a medal around his neck...
...Hepburn has served strident warning that he cares not a fig for "the person of the King" as represented in Ontario by Vice-Regal Lieut. Governor Col. The Hon. Dr. Herbert A. Bruce (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week, to the scandal of the Empire, distinguished citizens of Ontario received this engraved notice from the Vice-Regal residence, Chorley Park...
...Chicago, Rosita Royce danced one night in the Streets of Paris without her fig leaf, explained to a judge: "The wind blew it off." Sally Rand danced onto a theatre stage holding a big rubber "bubble" between herself and the audience. The bubble burst. To Mary Belle Spencer, crusading attorney who had Sally arrested, newshawks showed a picture of her half-naked 14-year-old daughter holding a trophy won in a bathing beauty contest. Said Mary Belle Spencer...
...ever polled as a Socialist was about 60,000.) Rivals accused him of running not a campaign but a publishing racket. He replied that he had two bank accounts with $108.74 in one and $20.68 in the other, that his living and his cottage in Pasadena?with two fig trees in its door-yard?were only made secure by his more practical wife, Mary Craig Sinclair...
...President himself is the foremost guide of legislation, and the Speaker, if capable, is No. 2. In the 73rd Congress Vice President Garner, rather than Speaker Rainey, was the second most potent fig ure. Nonetheless, the most cold-blooded politician could not take Rainey's passing lightly. The President, truly grieved, an nounced that he would attend Rainey's funeral in Carrollton...