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Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting 15 minutes. From 11:00 a. m. to 11:15 a. m. flower girls would not sell flowers, tram drivers would not drive their trams, many bank clerks banged shut their windows, and all telegraphs, telephones and radios were silent. Only taxicab drivers, irrepressible, defied the general strike order and buzzed back and forth with their fares...
...Duke and Duchess of York (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), news came that the Duchess had devised a special code before leaving England in which radio messages are sent to her concerning the health of her baby, Princess Elizabeth, now under the personal care of the Queen-Empress Mary. Flower names were chosen by the Duchess as baby code words. Rose: well and happy. Dogwood: whooping cough. Lily: sleeps well. Snapdragon: colic...
Married. Henry ("Spider Boy") Bulson, to Margaret ("Princess Alahula Harvy") Berry; on the stage of the Harlem Museum, New York. An 8-ft. 4 in. best man, a 36-in. flower girl, a 783-lb. bridesmaid attended the couple. Bearded ladies, tattooed men, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters threw good luck coins as the "Spider Boy" proceeded down the aisle on his hands...
Besides misleading and overwhelming newspaper publicity, the blame for the above-mentioned municipal ostracism can be laid to the prevailing inability to separate a man from his actions, to discriminate between the flower and the soil. Chaplin's films are, the really important thing about him, but they are barred because he is suspected of not being fit to teach Sunday School. Also symptomatic of the same disease working in a contrary direction is the public refusal to discriminate between Ty Cobb's batting average and his personal honesty...
Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence's portrait of "Pinkie" (TIME...