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...down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy. In 30 hands it swayed perilously. Others leaped forward and with much straining helped to hoist it into position on the caisson. Bands took up the doleful beat of a funeral march. Soldiers, sailors and citizens, the cortege moved east through old Chelsea. To the curbs from tenements and factories packed workingmen, old men, shawled grandmothers, women with babies. "There's Lindy!" went...
...latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove in the Detroit River last September at an unofficial speed of 102 m. p. h. In 1912, relaxing from problems of speedboat design, he invented and perfected the hydraulic hoist truck which made him a millionaire and gave him the money and the time to indulge his hobby. Gar Wood now has an income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year...
...condemn the performance as presented in a consecrated house and one which had, incidentally, never been used for morality plays in the middle ages. Poet Masefield replied: "Would you have the shepherds talk about foot and mouth disease?" The play was accordingly produced with accompanying music by Gustav Hoist, with costumes designed by Charles Ricketts...
...material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes are back...
Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...