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...wife's demands and retire from his beloved drugstore in order to follow the life of culture and pleasure which his socially minded spouse has mapped out for him. On a golf course, Mr. Rogers is truly a sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only increases Andy's yen to get back to his drug store and the back-room games of pinochle with the town "doc" and when his wife drags him off to the New Orleans Mardi Gras he makes his bid for freedom by showing her that...
Because of the publicity police were loath to "rubber-hose" Prisoner Hauptmann's story out of him. But the gentler method of keeping him awake, nagging him with questions for 48 hours brought small results. The stolid, 35-year-old Teuton soon closed his mouth tight. His shocked wife Anna, who apparently knew nothing of her husband's finances, got him a lawyer, but Hauptmann refused to see him. Then she got him another...
...first suggestion of comfort came in 1907 when corset-makers hit upon the idea of "anchoring" the corset to the stocking by means of the hose supporter. With little change the corset pinched and pressed its way through the War into the "corsetless era," which was not corsetless at all. It was the age of the girdle. Millions of stout women kept on buying corsets. The slimmer ones took to the girdle. When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment." At the beginning of Depression the Paris couturiers, sick of the tube dress, came...
...Ravenna, Ohio, Jaspara Servia was ganged by fellow employes of the Erie Railroad. The pranksters pushed an air-hose into his body, turned on no l10b. pressure, blew him up to more than double his size. Hoping to save his life, surgeons cut open and deflated Jaspara Servia...
...cluttered west side and the completion of a vast freight station in Lower Manhattan, President Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take...