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There'll Be No Changes Made. Poor Frances Trollope took a terrible beating from this nation of officers and gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot and tossed Britain (as Cincinnati tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America...
...prom. Do you get what I mean?" One of the players didn't. "What is a junior prom?" he asked. "You don't know what a junior prom is?" thundered Casey. "A junior prom is a prom that ain't old enough to be senior prom. Haw...
...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
...Leadville, the silver boom slowed and then collapsed. "Haw" Tabor died destitute in a Denver hotel he had built. But Colorado and Boettcher prospered. Boettcher branched out into mines, land, railroads, cattle, banks. He gave generously of his millions, pinched pennies for himself. His son Claude† took over management of his enterprises, built a new fortune upon...
World War II produced a new kind of traitor-men who openly broadcast for the enemy, tried to undermine U.S. morale. Three were brought to trial. Expatriot Poet Ezra Pound was arrested in Italy, escaped conviction when he was pronounced insane. Chicago-born Douglas Chandler, the "American Lord Haw-Haw," was sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week, in Boston's Federal District Court, Robert H. Best, 52, was also sentenced to life and fined...