Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention, and yet the most improbable people seem to have stolen it?quaint rustics, fake priest, German spy, vamp. The Diamond Murders (Dodd, Mead, $2) reeks with dope...
...that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well? Col. Lindbergh compressed his lips and only opened them to say: "You know all about it. I have nothing to say. I will confine my remarks to aviation." The next...
Died. Richard Ledger. London septuagenarian who plunged daily before breakfast into the Serpentine (muddy brooklet in Hyde Park) regardless of rain, sleet, hail, snow or ice. Instead of an overcoat he wore a paper waistcoat. He once announced: "My proudest possession is a letter from King George congratulating me upon my exceptional vigor...
...operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery...
What great man was born on February 22? Why, Robert Lampoon, of course. Or so Bob told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The maitre d'hotel and fountain-head of humor for the funny paper on Mt. Auburn Street was warming his hands over a cup of Arthur's coffee and contemplating the prospect of having a birthday. As taciturn as his prototype, President Coolidge, the Lampoon jester forced the reporter to pry his secret from...