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Regarding the pitiful "wolf boy" story in your Feb. 15 Press section, they have the wrong "animal" hospitalized in Lucknow. It should well be the doctor-superintendent, to be gaped at, poked, and made to howl and moan. Admission: free...
...Meanwhile, at the government hospital, the doctor-superintendent (and source of the stories) was reveling in the publicity. Amidst a swelling tide of local protest, the sick, deformed child was put in a ward where spectators saw an attendant on hand to poke him and make him howl and moan. Admission charge: 1 anna...
...column, a new dish is seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
Crestfallen and dejected, Salesman Auguste could only moan: "There ought to be a law ..." Well, maybe there was. Last week blonde Madame Viviana and Professor Pedro were haled to a Paris criminal court by Auguste Chaussumier, whose mistress' husband they had failed to kill. "For what does he reproach them?" demanded the defense attorney. "His wish was at least as immoral as their actions. And if they had not offered their services, who knows but what Chaussumier might have gone to a professional killer...
...prepares intelligent speeches, presents them in the best diction, and gets chided for sounding "too good" and not having the "down to earth" approach ... I say he has the right idea and to hell with the Taft clique and smug Republican governors who sit on their thrones and moan for his neck...