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...fifteenth night the Juoni-Peterson stronghold capitulated. With Sheriff Saunders acting as liaison officer, the Juonis offered to serve pickled herring, 200 sandwiches and 200 cups of coffee to 200 guests in return for a night's sleep. The charivarists accepted, ate the herring and sandwiches, drank the coffee, left with a bowl filled with $30 in silver. Outside they were aghast to find that Sheriff Saunders had departed with all their horns, pans, boilers, drums, hoops, hammers, fiddles, saxophones, trays, bells, saws, firearms and new noisemaking machines...
...Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold watch, a $50,000 messenger boy, the Tsar of Russia and the Wandering Jew. It began the day Lewis J. Selznick auctioned off the stock in his cheap Manhattan jewelry store and began...
...Zukor did the same for Mary Pickford, he wrote Mary Pickford a letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent...
...Economics 8b Sever 36 Engin. Sciences 5b Pierce 307 English 9 Harvard 2 English 26 Harvard 6 Fine Arts 15b Fogg Small Rm. French 29 Harvard 2 Geology 13b Emerson F German 1c Harvard 5 German 4 Harvard 5 Government 1 Mr. Cole. Sec. C1 C2 Mallinckrodt MB9 Dr. Herring. Sec. H1, H2 Mallinckrodt MB9 Mr. Maddox, Sec. M1. M2 Mallinckrodt MB9 Mr. Michelmore, Sec. B1 O2 New Lect. Hall Mr. Pfanckuchen, Sec. F1, F2, F3, F4, S3 Memorial Hall Mr. Pontius, Sec. D1, D 2 New Lect. Hall Mr. Putnam, Sec. P1, P2 New Lect. Hall Mr. Robinson...
Answer: While there is reason for treating Prohibition as a red herring to drive the people of the U. S. off the main trail, it may be faced. Progressive opinion is against any blanket repeal of the 18th Amendment which does not substitute a rational system of public control over alcohol...