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...gigantic machine which has to be reversed to return him to the line. At lunch time, the president of the factory uses him to test a new eating machine which throws soup in his face, jams a corncob against his teeth, pounds his face with a blotter. After this hideous experience, Chaplin goes wild. First he races about the factory pulling all the switches in sight. Next he goes outdoors and scares a lady by waving wrenches at her because the buttons on her dress remind him of the nuts on his assembly belt. Chaplin goes to jail where...
...sonnet: This man was King in England's direst need; In the black-battled years when hope was gone, His courage was a flag men rallied on; His steadfast spirit shewed him King indeed. And when the war was ended, when the thought Of revolution took its hideous place, His courage and his kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful...
Recently the radical press of the nation learned about the deaths at Gauley Bridge, began to rattle the skeleton of what it claimed was a hideous industrial scandal (TIME: Jan. 6). One who heard the clatter was young Representative Vito Marcantonio of Manhattan, who has a sharp ear for the kind of news stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman...
Screeched the Dallas News: "The tabloid press and yellow journals whose Peeping Tom tactics have made his private life hideous have no place in self-respect-ing communities...
Item: Bert Lahr, expectorating his words and making hideous faces...