Word: meekness
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From a Sunday rotogravure page of the Chicago Tribune fortnight ago peered the faces of two small creatures. One was a pudgy-jowled monster. The other was a meek-looking infant with bangs. The ugly picture had a credit line - Acme Photo. The other one was credited to the German consulate in Chicago. Below the pictures was printed a copy of a letter from the Acting Consul General, Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, to the Tribune. Excerpts...
...other feature is "Love, Honor, and Oh Baby," a humorous burlesque upon heart balm suits. The facial expressions of Slim Summerville, Zasu Donald Meek, and George Barbier, united in one picture afford good comedy...
...time is approaching when the problem of war debts must be given a decent burial. If the administration opens hasty, ill-considered negotiations now, it will be rewarded with a bumper crop of defaults. If it shows a meek willingness to take what is offered, the nominal sum which crosses the Atlantic will have more of a nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries...
Into the Sausalito, Calif, home of William Foristal Wood, cousin of the late William Howard Taft, walked his neighbor, Howard Meek. Once a ticket-taker on the Sausalito ferry, Meek had lost his job, become insane. He flourished a pistol, held Wood prisoner all night in his home. Next morning he took Wood to San Francisco, registered with him at an apartment hotel as father and son. When Meek went out during the day he bound his victim with wire, taped his mouth, muffled his head in a hood. He made Wood cook their meals, forced him to withdraw...
After four days. Meek marched his prisoner out to the bank, forced him to withdraw $10,000. Afterwards they went into a gun shop, where Meek made Wood buy a new revolver. Returning to the apartment, they passed through crowded, bustling Crystal Palace Market. Meek decided he wanted to eat some walnuts, went with his prisoner into a shop to buy them. When he stepped up to the counter. Wood spied a policeman. Suddenly nerved, he cried: "Look out, that man has a gun!" and started to run. Meek wheeled around, fatally wounded the policeman in the chest, then backed...