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...like suppliants, to Dr. H. P. Senftner, associate director of the state department of health. Their palms were covered with great ulcers, about one-half inch in diameter, one-sixteenth to one-eighth inch deep; the margins were irregular in outline and thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into...
What newspaper reader aged 5 to 75 can name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed...
...whole column. When we describe a big padded cell with plucked geese hanging from the ceiling, we convey almost nothing to the reader. Perhaps it would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such a variety of ways...
Cradle Snatchers-A flip and riggish comedy appeared last week and seems to have caught the people's fancy. It is a boisterous piece, offensive to those of temperate taste, and probably very funny to the rest...
...flip 'em and fling...