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...certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage one of the grittiest demonstrations of the Depression...
Readers who like to take their summer literary pabulum cradled in a hammock will find Authoress Eliat's Oriental tale breezy enough to keep them rocking comfortably. Perfumed with voluptuous myrrh and frankincense, it subtly insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next woman," wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel...
...cottage on the ocean at East Hampton, L. I. Thither, eventually, came troops of newsmen, including many oldtime baiters of the Bride, to receive polite and smiling welcome. For eight long hours, the honeymooners entertained the Press. As they posed on the beach, on the cottage steps, in the hammock, the Bride jollied her old acquaintances. One remark: "Perhaps I have a vulgar taste. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of reporters, riding along with me on trains, telling me about their own troubles after their long stories had been filed. I like beautiful jewelry. I love...
...remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock is to realize that, so long as people go on saying incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous, often...
...Along came a hunter. Through the leaves he sighted a sleek black form. Game. He shot. A screech, not animal, and out of the branches flopped a Negress, dead, naked, devoid of tribal tattoos. Apparently apes had reared her from infancy. Clumsily she had learned to climb, to sleep hammock-wise across two stout branches, to eat fruits, to jabber, to live their life...