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...Texas and a Chicago church. In 1921 he went to Washington's Epiphany. Two years later there was a diocesan convention in Washington. The Cathedral's executive secretary, Edwin N. Lewis, says that on that fateful day, on the far-off New York Central Lines many an engineer and fireman leaned from his cab to ask: "How's our Bishop running?" Then they learned that Railman Freeman was a bishop...
Training to defend one's country has always been part of a gentleman's education, a citizen's privilege. There is just as great a distinction between a Reserve Officer's Commission and a job as Letter Carrier, Fireman, Dog Catcher, or Street Cleaner, as there is between a professor of Greek literature and the proprietor of a Greek restaurant; or as between an architect and a brick-layer. The mere wearing of a uniform is no sign of boorishness, nor is it the disgraceful badge of submission to a system. In fact, the season is approaching when even...
...John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...retaken and an unusual number have come into being recently. In addition to "Daddy Longlegs," and "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," at least four other old productions are coming out again. They are "The Miracle Man," the show which brought stardom to Thomas Meighan, Rence Adores, and Lon Chaney; "Fireman Save My Child," formerly a Beery-Hatton vehicle; "Smilin' Through," in which Norma Shearer will do the part once taken by Norma Talmadge; and "The Man Who Played God," a story about a musician who becomes deal and learns to read lips which George Arliss will star in again...
...fireman will die because he did not report the engineer drunk, a conductor because he was responsible for the conduct of the train crew, a stationmaster and train despatcher because they did not hold the train at the station but let it pass through and crash into another train. Among lives lost in the wreck was that of the drunken engineer...