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...pass upon a stock holding of the so-called ice trust that had at that time a contract with the city of New York, and there was a hue and cry raised at the time ?they wanted to hang the Mayor of New York at the nearest lamp post, some people did?and when the matter was brought before Theodore Roosevelt he said this: 'The power of removal from office of elective officers should be treated much as we treat the power of impeachment, it is an extraordinary and not an ordinary matter. . . . ' And he dismissed the charge...
...shut on account of his asthma, "in an attitude as inconvenient as possible: a bad pen, a half-empty bottle of ink. . . . He held his sheet of paper in the air and wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three days at a stretch. Once he sallied out to the Louvre to refresh his memory about a picture, did not realize until he got there that it was midnight. Proust was sorry...
Harpo Marx's profession in Horse Feathers is somewhat more appropriate than his brother's. Harpo is a dogcatcher. He has a large lamp post to attract large dogs, a small lamp post for lapdogs, nets of various sizes. Running wildly about the town, he presently arrives at a speakeasy where Groucho Marx is trying to find a pair of professional football players to improve the Huxley team. Chico Marx is associated with the speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins...
...infantry moved into Bonus City (10:14 p. m.) gassing each wretched shack and shanty, veterans by the thousands trudged off into the night. Some carried their belongings wrapped in bundles on their backs. One drunk went lurching away bearing only a large oil lamp. A few sang old War songs. Women carried babies in their arms. Huts and lean-tos were set afire, partly by the departing veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow...
...Occasionally their pipes came in contact with bodies soft and active, but not another cat could they catch. So into their wagon they piled, carefully avoiding their 31 captive cats, putted off to the pound. Widow Dornsife spoke soothingly to her five remaining pets, struck a match, lit a lamp...