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BARBER SHOP BALLADS-Edited by Sigmund Spaeth-Simon & Schuster ($2.00). That summer nights may be less hideous and rancid discords less frequently pollute the fine free atmosphere of club porches, tonsorial parlors, moonlight bays, locker rooms and shower baths, Singer Sigmund Spaeth 'and the Weber-and-Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical...
Newspaper men* were in Hawaii and the "War" was over. They began poking about, asking questions. Their curiosity was especially intrigued by a number of hideous oil tanks?some big, some small, some filled, some empty, some for battleship fuel, some for aircraft gasoline. All had been built by Edward L. Doheny...
...Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
These were the five hideous events in last week's Bulgarian news...
...audience a taste of real drama. An atmosphere of superstition and terror is created at the outset by the discovery that 13 people are seated about the table. Mr. Clive, taking the role of host, entertains a group that he suspects to have had a hand in the hideous murdering of his brother. He puts them through a horrible evening, yet we know no more at the end than at the beginning. The whole act is merely to produce dramatic effect, and certainly is successful...