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...room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me, I conjure you to have my body opened so I may not be buried alive...
...steamer Oaxaca,* for the use of which I am paying $50,000 monthly, to seek swordfish and other wild animals in and around the Gulf of California. I had the Oaxaca completely done over to suit my taste. Aboard, our feet will rest on Oriental rugs; our eyes will gaze on rare paintings; our faces will be cooled by electric fans; we will sleep in twin beds instead of berths...
...Texas, eastward from the storm-drenched purlieus of Los Angeles they go ? 500 leather-cheeked, great-knuckled athletes, members of the 16 "big" league teams, presumably the best baseball players in the world. For two months they have been practising; playing exhibition games under the languid unimportant gaze of winter traveler and native, under the sharply appraising eye of owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April 12, brass gongs will...
...PEACHES" said black type more than an inch high, in a Pittsburgh newssheet. Frances Heenan Browning, blonde, buxom, onetime darling of the tabloids, had signed a contract to expose her nether limbs to the gaze of Pittsburgh's night-clubbers. Pittsburghers, righteously indignant, "canned" "Peaches," forced the cancellation of the contract. Meanwhile, Dr. Henry J. Schireson, Chicago plastic surgeon, surveyed the aforementioned nether limbs with interest; gossip said that "Peaches" agreed to pay him $10,000 to remove her acid burn scars and bring slender shapeliness to her amply-built legs...
...Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation, where they are told to rejoice and to go to work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices...