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...unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine weekend and are seen posing as ''Mr. & Mrs. Johnson'' on a garish hotel terrace, the escapade takes on a tawdriness which a similar situation in Yes, My Darling Daughter (see p. 46) escapes. Fulton goes after them, pretending to be on his vacation, and brings them home. Everything turns out all right when the boy's father cables a reconciliation from Europe...
These publications had kind words to say of the "Sterilamp," a Westinghouse product. A series of long, narrow tubes shedding their garish blue light on meat in a butcher's showcase foils bacterial attack so successfully that only moderate refrigeration is necessary. Meat packers who "tender" their meats by hanging or aging (allowing enzymes to break down the tough fibers) now find it safe to speed up the tendering process by using warmer temperatures under violet-ray protection. Bakers irradiate bread and cake before wrapping, to kill mold spores, increase the salable life of the product by several days...
...centre of celebration last week was Memphis' Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis whites were celebrating the annual Cotton Carnival, Beale Street was having its own fiesta, crowning its own king and queen, parading its own elaborate floats. The king was Undertaker Eddie Hayes. Queen was Ethyl Venson, pretty young wife of a Negro dentist. Highest honors throughout the fiesta were paid to a portly old Negro who had motored from his home in Manhattan for the occasion. A great hero...
...William was Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled...
...uneducated save in the school of war, scarcely a gentleman, and vulgar-souled . . ." but "... a brilliant air of being above his fellows, a flash of some genius and heroism." To Nelson, Emma was a goddess: "He would never check her vulgarity, wince at her noisy voice, complain of her garish clothes, for he would never notice these defects. To him she was perfect; they were as easy in each other's company as the seaman after a long voyage was easy with the fat doxy waiting for him in the Wapping ale-house...