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Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...
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...that he took great pains and a reasonable length of time in writing it. It is an ungarnished autobiography, beginning with the sentence: "I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902." Many a garrulous autobiographer might well follow Colonel Lindbergh's example of omitting the personal parsley...
Having given its curious readers the parsley, the Boston Traveler last week revealed the meat. The aviator's name is Harry N. Atwood. For the last five years, he has been drawing up plans in his hilltop home in Monson, Mass., for a multi-motored, heavier-than-air ship capable of carrying 100 passengers across the Atlantic in less than 48 hours...
...tapestries, rich with color? Florenz Ziegfeld. In it he presented no Follies last week, but a musical comedy with fresh, feathery ballet dancers and a chorus that made strong men sigh. Rio Rita had a plot-something to do with oil leases and statesmen. A plot however, is mere parsley when the eyes and ears are well feasted. Pinwheel. Expressionism went on a debauch at the Neighborhood Playhouse (Manhattan) last week. Coney Island calliopes tooted, factory whistles shrieked, elevated trains jangled, klaxons yowled, saxophones clucked and gurgled during 16 scenes. A "Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married...