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Yolpone-MIDDLE AGE BROKER, ALLEGED SICK, DISAPPEARS AT OOM CULT RUMOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Headliners in Manhattan | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning's rubber eggs, baby dolls, clay puppies, infantile endearments, trick spoons. New screamer: "DADDY TO BECOME A MONK"-and a picture of the lecher in his office, the walls of which were entirely covered with pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Orgy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard the Student Council has learned that there is room in the undergraduate body for both "college" or "quad" and the clubs that the two are complementary and not antagonistic. As Oom Paul Kruzer used to say, one hand washes the other. In a concentrated community of 250 to 300 sophomores, juniors, and seniors each member should copie into intimate contacts with all: if he fails to do so, the fault is presumably his own. At Oxford there are casual but inevitably daily meetings over tea in the common--room and at dinner in Hallson all sorts of college athletic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University of colleges | 4/8/1926 | See Source »

...thought you might be pleased, or at all events interested, to learn that at least one Harvard man is fighting with the British out here. Your humble servant belongs to the first Canadian contingent and has seen considerable scrapping so far with Steyn and Oom Paul's legions, but thus far has been unhurt, I must try to attend my next class dinner (D. V.) and compare notes with my classmates who have fought the Spaniards and Filipinos. You ought to see me now in tattered, soiled khaki uniform, nearly as brown as a Negro and as tough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from South Africa. | 5/11/1900 | See Source »

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