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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...
...Beloit, Wis., heirs of the late Mrs. Erne Gunderson found her large home packed with 50 house dresses, 30 pairs of shoes, unhung pictures, linen, scarfs, table and kitchenware, all unused. Explanation: Mrs. Gunderson, long poor and suddenly come into money, bought everything for which all her life she had wished to shop...
...realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed and by shooting out his legs he can increase it. He has learned, too, that a twist of his shoulder will change his course. It is ideal circus stuff...
Such journey, no tour de force, would serve to study the Arctic's floor. Some geologists believe that the waters rest in a huge basin, others that they hug the outside of a basin upside down. No one knows. Explorer Wilkins found a depth of 17,000 feet (3½ miles) off Point Barrow. Amundsen found 15,000 feet off Spitsbergen. Peary dropped a 3,000-ft. rope at the Pole and could not touch bottom...
Maria Jeritza, darling of Vienna, wanted a gold-brocaded dressing-room. At her own expense she ordered one at the Vienna Staatsoper. Last week, arrived at Vienna, she found no gold dressing-room, fell sick. Performances were postponed. The press blamed not the sickness but the unfinished dressing-room. Decorators were hurriedly corralled. Jeritza improved...