Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Mr. X was back in the hospital at Jackson, where for almost eight years he has puttered in the greenhouse wintering Jackson folks' plants for small tips, reading geographic magazines, historical novels and the World Almanac. Letters and inquiries by the thousands poured in to We, the People and to the hospital. At least 100 were sure they could identify...
...Mr. X's story seemed sound enough, but in its time We, the People has been hoaxed roundly, mostly before Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny...
...particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there first. If Mr. Lord liked her letter, could she come in a "bedded car," and should she bring her own vittles...
...Mr. Lord liked her letter, all right. It was right up his alley. Mollie arrived in a parasol of a beaver hat, a blousy frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...months later Lord heard from her again. Her conscience was bothering her. She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company. Only truth in her jest : she did have...